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cream to the extent of 48 per cent. Vendor
fined £5 and £1 3s. costs.
Butter ... Adulerated with 78 percent, of foreign fat. Vendor
fined £4.
Butter ... Adulterated with 47.6 per cent, of foreign fat.
Vendor fined £4.
Milk ... Adulterated with 30 per cent of water. Vendor
find £4.
Limewater ... From which 26 per cent, of lime had been extracted.
The magistrate (Mr. Mead) held that there was
no evidence that the Defendant had abstracted
any lime and dismissed the summons.
Under the Public Health (London) Act 1891, police-court legal
proceedings had been taken against the owners of the undermentioned
premises for disobeying the Board's notices with the following
results :—
Powis Road, 4. Fourteen days abatement order with £4 and
15s. cost.
On the night of the 17th July I seized 160 tins of condensed
milk from a provision shop in Devons Road, Bromley. The tins
were all blown, showing that the contents were bad. The magistrate
made the condemnation order on the next day. The owner agreed
that 50 tins of milk which were springy should be destroyed as trade
refuse. It was hoped that the firm who had supplied the shop,
keeper could be prosecuted under section 47 (3) of the Public Health
(London) Act for selling such condensed milk, but the shopkeeper
had written to the firm informing them of the condition of the articles
supplied, and as the firm had taken no notice the shopkeeper slated
the articles seized were put on one side and were not exposed for
sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or preparation
for sale, therefore under these circumstances it would appear that as
the law at present stands a summons would not hold good against
the person who supplied the shopkeeper.