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51. Part IV. would amend the provisions of the London
Building Act, 1894; and Part X. contains miscellaneous and
financial provisions among which is a Clause providing that in
default of payment of precepts or sums payable for maintenance
of patients in lunatic asylums by the date when due or within
twenty-one days of date of precept, if later, interest is to be paid
by Local Authority.
52. This Council approved of the clauses relating to unwholesome
milk, provided that they were amended so as to authorise
the Medical Officer of Health of a Sanitary Authority to require
persons from whom samples of milk for examination are taken at
any place other than a railway station to furnish him with information
as to the dairy in which such milk was produced, and that
a penalty should be imposed upon any person obstructing the
Medical Officer of Health of a Sanitary Authority in taking
samples of milk.
53. The clauses relating to milk supply were withdrawn by
the London County Council, the President of the Local Government
Board stating that the Government intended to introduce
general legislation on the subject of milk supply at a later date.
54. The Bill as amended was passed and received Royals
Assent on the 1st August.
West London Richmond Tramways.
55. This Bill proposed to authorise a company to construct a.
line tramway from Bridge Road, Hammersmith,,
over Hammersmith Bridge, through Barnes and
Mortlake along the Lower Richmond Road, to Kew
Road, Richmond; and from Castlenau, Barnes, through Rocks
Lane, over Barnes Common, along Upper Richmond Road and
Sheen Road, to a point near the fire station at Richmond. The
part of such tramways situate in this Borough was Tramway
No. 11 (77 chains double line, and 2 furlongs 17 chains single
line) from Priest's Bridge along Upper Richmond Road, to a
point opposite Roehampton Lane. The only widenings in this
Borough proposed by the Bill were on the southern side of Upper
Richmond Road for about 56 yards from the east side of the
Borough Boundary, and on the northern side of Upper Richmond5
Road from the north-west side of Priest's Bridge to the western
boundary of Vine Cottage. The Bill proposed to authorise the