Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Butter.—Analysed as "Margarine." Summons under Margarine
Act.
Defendant fined 5s. and 23s. costs.
In some instances, according to instructions, I have taken
samples on Sunday mornings.
L. C. C. General Pouers Acts.
Ice Cream Regulations.
All premises where ice cream is made or sold in the district,
numbering 35, have been regularly inspected during the season,
and new vendors have been placed on the register.
The places have been kept clean, and the itinerant vendors
have complied with the regulations in so far as keeping their names
and addresses on their barrows.
This regulation now seems to be well understood among the
foreigners.
Public House Urinals.
These have been kept as clean as possible under the new
powers conferred by the Act.
Public Health (London) Act.
All cases of infectious diseases have been closely enquired into,
in order to trace the connection (if any) between one case and
another.
A summons was taken out for not complying with a "Notice"
from the Council respecting a defective roof. The defendant
appeared, and his witness, a Surveyor from Kensington, pleaded
insufficiency of time allowed.