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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year two trunks and 13 haddocks, three boxes of
skate, one case of coal fish, one box of catfish, two boxes and six
stone of plaice, five boxes of tomatoes, two baskets of pears, two tubs
of crabs, two boxes of eels, one box of soles, seven boxes and one
barrel of herrings, 16 codlings, one barrel of sprats, and 91 rabbits
were destroyed at the request of the owners and the usual certificates
were granted.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS)
ACT, 1904.
This Act came into force during the year.
Powers are given in the Act for the Sanitary Authority :
(1.) To cause filthy, dangerous, or unwholesome articles to be
cleansed or purified.
(2.) To have any house or part of a house infested with vermin
cleansed.
(3.) To provide means for the cleansing, purifying or destruction
of filthy, dangerous, or unwholesome articles, and for the
cleansing of houses infested with vermin.
(4.) To require the owner to remove or alter sanitary conveniences
which are a nuisance or offensive to public decency.
(5.) To serve notice for fixed ashpits to be removed where
movable ashpits have been provided.
Power is also given in this Act for the Sanitary Authority to
enter on premises for inspection.
For the purpose of enforcing this part of the Act, Sections 101,
115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 133, and 135 of the
Public Health (London) Act 1891, shall apply and have effect as if
re-enacted in this Act.