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32 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
(See Table XXI.)
The tabulated statement shows the legal action taken during the year under the Public Health
Acts and bye-laws pursuant to them, and under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
The fines and costs under the "Health Acts" amounted to £51 13s. 0d., and those under the
"Food Acts" to £34 l1s. 0d., making a total of £86 4s. 0d. For the five years 1917-21 the annual
averages were: "Health Acts," £40 5s.; "Food Acts," £102; but the latter average is unduly
swollen owing to proceedings under War Regulations, etc. The average fine in "Food Acts" convictions
during 1922 was £4 5s. (1917-21 £4 16s. 3d.), and that of costs £1 l1s. l1d. (1917-21 £1 Is. l0d.)
CLERICAL WORK.
(See Table XX., Appendix.)
The work of the Clerical Staff has been largely recorded by implication in the preceding pages
of this Report. Special statistical analysis fails to bring out the complexity of that work, but such
items as lend themselves to mere statement by numbers are indicated in Table XX. There is no
evidence of any reduction of the total amount of this work. On the contrary each year more returns
are required and the task of preservation and ordering of records assumes larger proportions.