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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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Table: The percentage of added water, the penalty inflicted, and the costs incurred in each case are stated in the following table.

The percentage of added water, the penalty inflicted, and the costs incurred in each case are stated in the following table.

Penalty.Costs.
£s.d.s.d.
1-Milk containing-17 per cent, of added water100020
2.,,18 „710020
3.,,26 ,,50020
4.,,17 „50020
5.,,33 „30020
6.,,18 ,,20020
7.,,24,,20020
8.,,18 „10020
9.,,18 ,,10020
10.,19 „10020
11.,,14 „10020
12.,,18 „10020
13.,,28 „10020
14.,,15 „10020
£41100

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Six other summonses were taken out under The Nuisances Removal
Acts.
Three of these were in respect to defective drainage, in two of which
the magistrate made an order with costs, and the required works were
subsequently carried out. In the third drainage case the works were
finished before the summons could be heard.
Two summonses were issued for the recovery of money paid by the
Vestry for disinfection work carrried out in default of the owners of
premises complying with the usual Statutory notices, the amounts due—
17s. 6d. and £1 15s. respectively— being recovered with costs in each
case.
The last summons was issued against a tradesman for exposing
rabbits for sale which were unfit for human food, and which were seized
upon his premises by one of your Inspectors, who had them condemned by
one of the magistrates at the Clerkenwell Police Court, who afterwards,
upon hearing the summons, fined the defendant £3 and 2s. costs.
In all, 20 summonses were taken out.