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West Ham 1899

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899

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Summary of Work done under the Shop Hours Act.

No. of inspections made522
Cases of over-employment discovered24
No. of prosecutions12
„ convictions11
Letters of warning sent5
Verbal Notices given to reduce hours7

Table showing nuisances discovered and dealt with in connection with shop premises :—

Defective drains4
No separate accommodation for sexes4
Cisterns uncovered and dirty4

This return shows the work done by me under the Shop Hours
Act from January 1st to October 1st. After this date the duties were
taken over by the Shop Hours Inspector, except in the case of those
shops which have workrooms attached to them, of which there are at
present 49.
ALICE S. BILLING.
Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order, 1899.
On 7th February the Local Government Board issued the following
Order :—
Article I. This Order may be cited as the " Dairies, Cowsheds,
and Milkshops Order of 1899."
Article II. Article 15 of the Order (Dairies, Cowsheds, and
Milkshops Order, 1885) shall be altered so that, for the
purposes of the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b)
thereof, the expressions in the said Article, which refer
to disease, shall include, in the case of a cow, such
disease of the udder as shall be certified by a Veterinary
Surgeon to be Tubercular; and the Order and the
Amending Order (Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops
Order, 1886) shall apply and be construed with the
modifications necessary to give effect to this Article.