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RIVER-SIDE WHARVES, UNSOUND FOOD.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD ENQUIRY.
On the 15th of April, at the Town Hall of the Borough of Bermondsey,
together with the Mayor of Poplar, Chairman of the Public
Health Committee, and Town Clerk, 1 attended a conference of
Riverside Authorities with respect to the enquiry which was to be
held by the Inspector of the Local Government Board on the
24th of April at the Guildhall, City of London, with regard to the
proposal that the Local Government Board should issue an "Order"
extending the area over which the Port Sanitary Authority should
exercise jurisdiction in the matter of unsound food, so that such
area should include other wharves forming part of or abutting on
the Port of London.
The Port of London were to have assigned to them, under section
112 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, powers, rights,
duties, capacities, liabilities or obligations of a Sanitary Authority
under that Act relating to unsound food.
The following resolutions were adopted by the Conference,
viz.: —
"That this Conference is of opinion there is no justification
for the proposal that the Local Government Board
should issue an 'Order' transferring from the Riverside
Sanitary Authorities the powers and duties they now possess
in regard to the inspection of unsound food stored in and
upon the Wharves abutting upon the Port of London, and
pledges itself to strenuously oppose the suggested 'Order.'
"That Counsel be briefed to attend the Inquiry to be
held at the Guildhall, in the City of London, to oppose, on
behalf of the Authorities represented at this Conference, any
such transfer of powers and duties."