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THE MUD FIELD, EAST FERRY ROAD.
The Committee viewed the mud-field, East Ferry Road, belonging
to the Millwall Dock Company. The Committee were of opinion
the complaints that the mud-field is a nuisance are fully justified,
and that it may be detrimental to health. Upon the recommendation
of the Public Health Committee, the Council decided to give notice
to the Millwall Dock Company terminating the license for the pipes
passing under the East Ferry Road from the Millwall Docks to the
mud-field.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The Board of Agriculture issued regulations under Section 4 of
the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, providing that where the
proportion of water in a sample of butter exceeds 16 per cent, it
shall be presumed, for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts 1875 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, that the butter is
not genuine by reason of the excessive amount of water therein.
These regulations came into operation on the fifteenth day of
May, 1902.
The Battersea Borough Council called attention to the conflicting
decisions given in prosecutions under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts, in consequence of there being no legal definitions or standards for
the several articles of food sold as mixtures, and suggested that some
definite limit should be fixed for the composition of such articles, or
that the seller should be required to declare the proportions of the
constituent parts thereof. They addressed the Local Government
Board on the subject, pointing out that there is nothing in the
Acts regulating the proportions of the constituents of articles sold
as mixtures, and it is a matter of urgent necessity that steps be taken
to enforce by legal enactment the recognition of such limits as the
Board may see fit to determine. The Committee concurred with
the Battersea Borough Council.