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Unsound Food.—The unsound food surrendered and destroyed during the year is shown in
the following list:—
June 23rd.—12 boxes of potatoes.
November 14th.—2 pigs' carcases.
„ „ 5 pigs' heads.
2 pigs' plucks.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
Each of the ten Sanitary Inspectors is appointed as an inspector under the above Acts, and
is instructed to take samples in any place in the Borough which is not within his own sanitary
district. During the year the Inspectors collected 702 samples, of which 54 (or 7 per cent.) were
adulterated.
Proceedings were taken against 16 persons for adulteration or other offences, the fines and
costs inflicted amounting to £68 10s. 6d.
The samples collected were as follows:—

Margarine and Butter Substitutes —Under Section 9 of the Margarine Act, 1887, and
Section 7 (4) of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, manufacturers and wholesale dealers in
margarine and margarine cheese are required to register their premises with the local authority.
By Section 1 (1) of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907, these requirements were extended to butter
factories and to the premises of wholesale dealers in milk-blended butter. The following premises
in the Borough are registered in accordance with the requirements of the above Acts:—
Lipton, Ltd 210, Portobello Road.
„ 129, Brompton Road.
E. C. Nicholls 19, Church Street.
C. E. Webb & Sons 39-41, Brompton Road.
Pearks, Ltd. 165, Portobello Road.
Maypole Dairy Co., Ltd 196, Portobello Road.
Home and Colonial Stores, Ltd. 136, Portobello Road.
„ „ 20, Chepstow Mansions.
„ „ 71, Notting Hill Gate.
„ „ 171, Earl's Court Road.
„ „ 98, Golborne Road.