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The total expenses connected with the carrying out of the Food
and Drugs Acts in Lambeth Borough during 1907 amounted to
£55 4s. 1d., as against £98 9s 2d. during 1906, and are made
up as follows:—£27 11s. 7d. for samples, £10 19s. for
Assistant (Deputy), £2 12s. 6d. for witnesses, £12 5s. 4d. for
travelling expenses (including £2 11s. 6d. for cabs), and
£1 15s. 8d. for sundries. The salary of the Food and Drugs
Inspector (£120, rising by £10 annual increases to £200), and
the costs of the summonses (£12 3s.) are not included in the
above.
Proposed Notification to Tradesmen
of the Results of Analyses made under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Acts.
The Council, on June 13th, 1907, carefully considered a
proposal to notify to tradesmen from whom a sample has been
taken under the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
when such sample has been declared by the Analyst to be
genuine, within 7 days of the receipt of the Public Analyst's
certificate, but decided not to adopt it, having regard to the
extreme difficulty of framing a notification which would not
lend itself to any abuse. The statistics obtained from other
Metropolitan Districts with regard to the practice there were as
follows:—
1. No notification (22)—Battersea, Bermondsey, Bethnal Green,
Camberwell, Chelsea, Deptford, Fulham, Hackney, Hammersmith,
Hampstead, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, Lewisham,
Paddington, St. Marylebone, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Westminster, Woolwich.
2. Modified notification (4)—Finsbury, Greenwich, Pcplar,
and St. Pancras, thus:—
(a) In Finsbury, when a sample has been found genuine,
the following post card intimation is sent to the vendor,
viz.:—