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riageway, nor erect standards, posts or other apparatus, under,
upon or over any part of the public way, except in such positions
as the Borough Council shall reasonably approve.
47. The County Council is to reduce and improve the
gradients of Streatham High Road where reasonably practicable,
but shall not be compelled to carry out works which would interfere
with adjoining property or involve the payment of purchase
money or compensation; and in stopping up Ram Square, Wandsworth,
the County Council is not to stop up the highway to the
east of line shown on the plan approved by this Council.
48. Upon the agreements being exchanged, this Council's
opposition to the Bill was withdrawn, and the Bill has passed and
received Royal Assent on the 1st August, 1908.
London County (General Powers)Bill.
49. Part 11. dealt with unwholesome milk, and proposed to
authorise the Medical Officer of the London County
Council to take at any railway station samples of
milk for examination, and to authorise the Medical
Officer of Health of any Sanitary Authority to take samples of
milk sold, offered, or exposed or deposited for sale at any place
(not being a railway station) within the district, and that, if milk
produced in any dairy outside the county should on examination
of any sample taken at a railway station be found to contain any
matter rendering it unwholesome or unfit for food, the Medical
Officer of the London County Council may report thereon to such
Council who could prohibit the supply of milk within the county
from such dairy.
50. Part III. of the Bill contains sanitary provisions with
reference to the registration of dairymen, the removal and disposal
of trade refuse or any article of diseased or unsound food,
the appointment of health visitors for the purpose of giving to
persons in poor circumstances advice as to the proper nurture and
care of young children, and of promoting cleanliness, the accommodation
for the cooking of food in tenement houses, requirements
as to premises where any food is sold or deposited for the
purposes of sale or preparation for sale, to empower the County
Council to make bye-laws for regulating the conduct of the
businesses of a vendor of fried fish, fish-curer, and rag and bone
dealer.