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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Westminster 1899
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the united Parishes of St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster for the year 1899.
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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Inspector Dee.
Teh summonses for infringements of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, and one summons under the Food and
Drugs Act, were taken out during the year, in all of which the
Vestry were successful in obtaining fines or costs; the amount
so recovered being a total sum of £46 4s.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. Inspector Macnair.
| Premises. | Offence. | Fine. | Cost. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| 54, Chapter-street | Obstructing thoroughfare | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 79, Vauxhall-bridge-road | Do. do. Moreton-3treet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 52, Vincent-street | Failing to remove manure | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 7, Regency-streot | Selling margarine as butter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| Do. do. | Do. do. without label | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Bloomburg-street | Obstructing thoroughfare | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 24, Dorset-street | Selling adulterated milk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 85, LiHinc;ton-street | Do. do. butter | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 79, Vauxhall-bridge-road | Obstructing highway at Moreton-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Chapter-street | Obstructing highway at Chapter-street | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Carey-place | Obstructing highway at Carey-place | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Causton-street | Defective w.c., works completed on hearing of summons, Order made to abate nuisance | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 35, Dorset-street | Overcrowding | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 76, Tufton-street | Selling adulterated butter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | |
| 28, Ponsonby-place | Do. do. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | |
| 20, Moreton-street | Soil-pipe fixed contrary to byelaws Qf the L.C.C. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | |
| 27, Churton-street | Selling adulterated milk | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | G | |
| 34, Vincent-street | Do. do. butter | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | G | |
| Chapter-street | Obstructing highway at Chapter-street | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 25, Lillingtou-street | House let in lodgings—inadequate w.c. accommodation, works done on hearing of summons | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 1 to 5, Harper's-place | Houses unfit for i | closing orders made | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| human habitation | ||||||||
| 95, Rochester-row | Obstructing highway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 6,7 & 8, Harper's-place and | Houses unfit fori | closing orders made | — | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 20, Vauxhall-bridge-road | human habitation | |||||||
| 20, Vauxhall-bridge-road | Failing to comply with closing order | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 52, Vincent-street | Failing to lemovc manure | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| £23 | 1 | 0 | £10 | 10 | 6 | |||