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62 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southward.
The samples submitted in the preceding 5 years are as follows: —
1895 Samples 109. 22.0 per cent. adulterated.
1894 „ 85. 21.1 „ „
1893 „ 79. 25.6 „ „
1892 „ 71. 26.5 „ „
1891 „ 76. 26.3 „ „
Fines imposed for adulteration and contravention of the
Margarine Acts, for the year 1896 amount to £45 0 0
Costs 6 7 0
Total £51 7 0
Unsound Food Seized and Destroyed.
56 Rabbits, 81 pieces of Meat, a quantity of Shell Fish, 2 trunks of Haddocks, and
2 boxes of Kippers.
Summonses Issued During the Year.
Adulteration Act 14
Refusing to serve on demand 1
Margarine Act 3
Nuisances P. H. (London) Act 15
Housing of the Working Classes Act 2
Not obeying magistrates order 1
Bye-Laws for Tenement Houses (Contravention of) 9
Establishing newly a Noxious Trade 2
Letting newly-built houses without first obtaining water-supply
certificate 5
Erecting w.c. without giving Notice to Sanitary Authority 1
Total 53
Bedding, &c., Disinfected.
Lots of bedding disinfected during the year 450
Apartments disinfected during the year 479
Lots of bedding destroyed during the year 4
Scarlet Fever Cases 259
Diphtheria Cases 128
Typhoid Fever Cases 34
Small-Pox Cases 4
Miscellaneous Cases 25
Total Cases 450
School Notices sent to Head Teachers.
327 notices, under Section 55, sub-Section 4, Public Health (London) Act, have
been sent to head teachers of schools attended by any patient suffering from infectious
diseases, or by any child who being an inmate of the same house as the patient is
attending school.
(Signed) JOHN EDWARDS, Assoc. San. Inst.,
Chief Sanitary Inspector.