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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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73
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
The fines and costs imposed and granted amounted last year to £97 16s., as compared
with £152 3s. 8d. in 1905. The reduction was entirely in connection with the cases under
the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. The amount received under those Acts was £63 1s. last
year, as against £126 17s. in the preceding year.
In connection with cases under the "Health Acts," £34 odd were received, rather more than in the previous year. See below:
| Health Cases. | Adulteration Cases. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| 1906 | 34 | 15 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 0 |
| 1905 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 126 | 17 | 0 |
| 1904 | *62 | 6 | 6 | 101 | 2 | 6 |
| 1903 | 63 | 6 | 0 | 100 | 6 | 6 |
| 1902 | 32 | 19 | 0 | 175 | 6 | 6 |
| 1901 | 40 | 16 | 0 | 138 | 13 | 0 |
* £7 18. could not be collected owing to death of defendant, and in another case the fine (£2) was remitted,
the work having been carried out within the time specified by the Magistrate.
The fines and costs in Adulteration cases have averaged during the past seven years:—
| 1906. | 1905. | 1904. | 1903. | 1902. | 1901. | 1900. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average per conviction | Fine | £0 | 16 | 6 | £3 | 8 | 7 | £2 | 15 | 2 | £3 | 1 | 6 | £3 | 3 | 8 | £2 | 16 | 0 | £3 | 4 | 0 |
| Costs | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
It is a coincidence perhaps and nothing more that there should have been such a
remarkable decline in the average of fines and costs in the Food Cases and such a great
increase in the proportion of adulterated samples taken at the Paddington Terminus.