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and Housing Committee recommended the Council to support the action
of the Battersea Borough Council in the matter.
Suggested Removal of Vendors from Register after repeated
Convictions in respect of Adulteration.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylelone.
Town Hall,
Marylebone Lane, W.
3rd August, 1910.
Dear Sir,
I beg to inform you that the Council of this Borough in
carrying out the Sale of Pood and Drugs' Acts have taken proceedings
at the Police Court on several occasions against the same
vendors, more particularly in the sale of milk, who have been
convicted and fined each time. The Council are of opinion that,
in the interests of the community, steps should be taken to
prevent the repetition of such offences, and at their last meeting
they passed the following resolution
"That a letter be addressed to the Local Government
Board, stating that the Council are of opinion that after
three convictions in respect of offences against the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts within the period of two years in the
Administrative County of London, the Magistrate should be
empowered to order the name of the offender to be struck
off the Register of Purveyors of Milk, etc., and that a letter
be also sent to the other Metropolitan Borough Councils
asking them to concur with this Council in the matter."
I am,
Yours faithfully,
J. WILSON,
Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk,
Poplar.
The Committee were of opinion it is desirable that vendors of milk
repeatedly convicted of adulteration should be removed from the register,
and recommended the Council that the action of the St. Marylebone
Borough Council in this matter be supported.