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OFFICE WORK.
Of 340 samples of milk, 31 were taken at the Paddington (G.W.R.) Terminus at the
request of the consignees who had contracts with the farmers sending the milk to London.
Of such samples, 2, or 6.4 per cent, were found to be adulterated, as compared with 32.3 in
1907 ; 30-6 in 1906; and 12.6 in 1905.
Samples of milk were purchased in the streets on Sunday on 8 occasions, 61 samples being
so taken, none of which were adulterated.
OFFICE (CLERICAL) WORK.
The appended figures are intended only as a suggestion of the mass of work which has
to be performed by the Clerical Staff, conveying as they do but a very imperfect idea of the
very large amount of writing which is necessary, the bulk of which cannot be set out in the
form of statistics.
Letters received 4,014 (4,005) Complaints received 817 (747)
„ despatched 2,836 (3,108) Plans dealt with 403 (471)
Entries in postage book 12,341 (10,237) New openings in Journals 890 (786)
Cases of infectious disease
entered in Register 971 (740) Disinfection Orders
Notices sent re above and (duplicate) 1,424 (2,377)
other diseases 7,428 (6,594) Notices to abate nuisances 1,197 (1,254)
The figures in parentheses are the returns for 1907.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
The results of the cases which were brought before the Police Magistrate are appended
hereto. The Department is able to secure the abatement of nearly all nuisances by service
of " written intimations" which are not, in the legal sense, "notices " at all, and the cases
taken into Court form but a small proportion of the total dealt with during the year.
The fines imposed during the year amounted to £48 5s. and the costs awarded to
£51 2s. 6d. Those sums are paid to the Council's account.