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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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| Situation of Property. | Offence. | Result of Proceedings. |
|---|---|---|
| 88, Gower Street | Carrying out work without notice to the Authority | Fined £1 and 2s. costs. |
| 38, Acton Street | Do. do. | Fined £1 and £1 2s. costs. |
| 5, Bernard Street | Do. do. | Do. do. |
| 63, Fortess Road | Drain and soil pipe defective, and soil pipe improperly ventilated | Abatement order within 21 days, and £2 2s. costs |
| 54, Drummond Crescent | Front basement room illegally occupied | Fined £2 and 2s. costs. |
| 151, Gray's Inn Road | Absence of water supply | Closing order and £2 2s. costs. |
| Midland Railway Co. | For using two locomotive steam engines not constructed so as to consume their own smoke, and which did not not consume their smoke | Summons withdrawn on suggestion of Magistrate (Mr. Plowden), on the ground that no notice had been given to the Company be tore the issue of the Summons. |
| London and North-Western Railway Co. | Do. do. | Do. do. |
V.-FOOD.
§ 1.—FOOD PREMISES.
The dairies, covrsheds, and milkshops, the slaughterhouses, the places where
raw foods are prepared, and the marketing places have been regularly visited
and inspected. The markets and marketing streets have also been regularly
visited 011 Saturday nights and Sunday mornings during the summer months.
Bakehouses, restaurant kitchens, and similar workplaces fall under the
Factory and Workshop Acts, and have been dealt with under Part IV.
§ 2. UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
Dirty Milk.—On the 20th February a churn of milk was seized at Euston
Station as unfit for human food. The churn was consigned from Easton
Mandit, Northamptonshire, to a large London dairy company, and was labelled
"warranted pure new milk with all its cream and free from preservative."
Upon examination there was seen on the surface of the milk a quantity of
floating foreign matter, straws, little lumps of brownish matter like cow dung,
hairs, and numerous black particles, giving all the appearances of an impure
and very dirty milk, unfit for human food. The magistrate at Marylebone
Police Court made an order for its destruction. Before pouring it away