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68
Weston Street, 10.
Sherman Street, 4.
Bruce Road, 112.
Eleanor Street, 15, 16.
By your directions I have obtained 48 samples of food and drugs
for analysis. Legal proceedings were instituted against four vendors
and convictions were obtained, the penalties inflicted by the presiding
magistrates varying from £1 to £12.
The nature of articles, extent of adulteration, and results of policecourt
proceedings were as follows:
Milk Adulterated with 10 per cent. of water. Vendor
fined 20s.
Coffee Adulterated with 60 per cent. of chicory. Vendor
fined 20s.
Margarine Proceedings taken under Margarine Act. Vendor
fined 40s. and 23s. cost.
Milk Adulterated with 19 per cent. of water. Vendor
fined £12 and £1 3s.
Under the Public Health (London) Act 1891, police-court legal
proceedings had been taken against the owners of the undermentioned
premises for disobeying the Board's notices with the following
results:—
Tibbats Road, 13 and 15.
Defective drains.
Magistrate's orders to execute the works in fourteen days with
7s. in the first case and £2 13s. 3d. in the second case.
8, Quickett Street.
Improperly repairing drain.