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necessary to resort to legal proceedings before the Magistrate,
the works being satisfactorily completed in all the
other cases.
2. Food and Drugs Adulteration Acts: Over 3,000
samples have been procured, and over £600 obtained in
penalties and costs.
3. Smoke Observations: Over 700 special smoke
nuisances have been dealt with.
4. Workshops: 721 workshops, with 1,261 rooms, in
which work 4,145 persons (of whom 2,469 are females) are
regularly inspected from time to time.
5. Registers: The Vestry possesses complete Registers of
all Workshops, Bake-houses, Cow-houses, Slaughter-houses,
Laundries, and Schools in the Parish of Lambeth.
6. Customs and Inland Revenue Acts: In connection with
the granting of certificates for exemption from, or abatement
of, inhabited house duties, the Medical Officer has personally
inspected 448 blocks of houses containing 2,878 tenements,
and a large amount of sanitary work has been carried out
before certificates have been granted.
In connection with No. 4, the Vestry did not adopt the recommendation
of the Sanitary Committee to appoint a Female Sanitary
Inspector.