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mended that the Act should be re-enacted in modern language and
that provision should also be made for dealing with premises used
for the sale of other goods and in which bread is exposed for sale.
Analysis of
Milk.
93.—Owing to the difficulty often experienced in procuring
samples of milk in course of transit for analysis
where such milk is delivered at railway stations outside
the borough for sale in the borough the Westminster City
Council suggested that some plan of combined action should be
agreed upon whereby at the request and expense of the Council of
the Borough to which milk is consigned, samples might be taken
at the railway depots by the Inspectors of the Councils of the
respective Boroughs to which such milk was consigned. The
Council agreed with the suggestion, and a communication was
addressed to the Board of Agriculture urging them to consider the
desirability of inserting a clause in the Sale of Butter Bill then
before Parliament which would give authority to a Sanitary
Inspector of any Borough to take samples of milk, consigned to
his district, for analysis, at any station situated in another Borough
and being the place of delivery. It was not however found possible
to include this provision in the Bill.
Ambulances.
94.—The provision of ambulance accommodation has engaged
the attention of the Council. The subject of
placing the ambulance carriages of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board at the disposal of the public for the conveyance in
London of medical and surgical cases, and of persons of unsound
mind was considered, but it was decided that while the Asylums
Board was in the best position of any public body in London to
provide a thoroughly efficient service with the least expenditure,
the service could only legally be used for infectious diseases.
95.—The Council after considering the subject decided to
support an application to the Local Government Board for the
necessary legal authority to be given to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board for giving effect to the proposal.
96.—Owing to representations made to the Council of
the urgent need for a better and more efficient ambulance
service other than for infectious diseases in various parts
of the Borough, and the great inconvenience and suffering
arising from the delay in, and in some cases the