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The following also were registered during the year:—
33 Retail Purveyors of Sterilized Milk in Sealed Bottles. (24 on
account of change of Ownership.)
I Retail Purveyor of Raw Milk in "Sealcones" (on account of
change of Ownership.)
8 Retail Purveyors of Milk in Sealed Bottles.
In January the Public Health Committee removed Mr. J. Camp and
the premises 7A, Ricardo Street from the register.
The Medical Officer of Health was authorised to request the Council's
Solicitors to apply for the additional penalty of removal from the register
in any case when the Medical Officer of Health considered this additional
penalty should be asked for.
Legal proceedings were taken against a firm trading in Poplar from
premises registered in another borough. The Magistrate inflicted a
penalty of £25, or two months' imprisonment, with two guineas costs,
and stated that if the firm came before him again and were convicted he
would remove them from the register. At a later date three further
summonses were taken against this firm and the Magistrate inflicted a
penalty of £100 in one case, £50 in each of the two other cases, and
allowed the Council thirty guineas costs on the three summonses. The
Magistrate further ordered that the defendant be removed forthwith from
the register of dairymen and cowkeepers absolutely.
Following this a member of the family who was manager of the firm
during the latter proceedings applied for registration as a purveyor of
milk in the borough. Upon the advice of the Council's Solicitors the
Public Health Committee agreed that this man should be refused registration
and he was given formal notice to appear before the Committee to
show cause why his application for registration should not be refused.
The applicant appeared before the Committee and after due consideration
the Committee unanimously resolved that he had not shown adequate
reasons why his application should not be refused and, therefore, directed
that his application to be registered as an itinerant vendor be refused.
The applicant appealed against the Council's decision. Appeal was
heard at the Thames Police Court and was dismissed with 10 guineas
costs for the Council. The Magistrate remarked this was "a most
unmeritorious appeal'' and ought never to have been brought.