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were written to, and letters were received in reply, apologising
for the neglect, whereby the London County Council byelaws
had been infringed in two ways, viz., the dung mixture (dung
mixed with litter other than straw litter) was (1) removed in an
improper vehicle, and (2) removed outside of the prescribed
hours. No summons was taken out.
SALE OF UNSOUND TINNED FOODS.
The Council, during 1907, wrote to the Local Government
Board, requesting the Board to take action, with a view to
amending the existing Law with regard to unsound food, so that
the retailers might be protected, and the wholesale dealers
convicted, where it is proved that the latter are liable to
prosecution for having sold to the former food that was, at the
time of such sale and purchase, unsound and unfit for human
consumption. This decision of the Council was the result of
proceedings taken at the Lambeth Police Court by a neighbouring
Borough Council in connection with the seizure of condensed
tinned milk which had been seized, and the retail shop dealers,
in whose possession they were found, afterwards convicted.
Summonses were afterwards taken out against the middleman,
from whom the retail dealers had purchased the milk. The
difficulty arose in proving that when the food was sold to the
retailers by the middleman it was at that time in such a
condition as to be liable to be seized as unfit for food, and the
Magistrate, recognising this difficulty, dismissed the summons
against the middleman.