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Poplar 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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giving effect to the above suggestion, and I have been directed
to ask that the Poplar Borough Council will support the action
of this Council.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
EDWARD WRIGHT,
Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk,
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
The Committee recommended the Council—
That the action of the Lewisham Borough Council be
supported.
UNSOUND FOOD AND EXAMINATION OF
FOOD STUFFS AT WHARVES, &c.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and
Housing Committee: —
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY.
Municipal Offices,
15, Great Alie Street,
Whitechapel, E.
26th January, 1905.
Dear Sir,
This Council's attention has been called to what they consider
a very serious defect in the law relating to unsound food.
The Medical Officer of Health has pointed out to them that
at the present time, if a person in the country sells to a butcher
in town carcases of diseased animals, and the butcher, acting