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SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS IN ACT. 103
a certain number of years) unoccupied by buildings,
no future erection shall be made, except with the
sanction of the Commission.
9. A clause to protect the purity and wholesomeness
of human food, as sold within the City,
by affixing penalties to its exposure for sale in any
adulterated, decayed, or corrupted condition, which
may impair its fitness for consumption.
These are the heads under which it has appeared
to me that the most useful additions might be made
to your Act of Parliament, in matters within the
scope of my official observation. There are some
other minor modifications, which I have submitted
to your Committee of Health, and which (as they
relate merely to detail) it is unnecessary for me to
bring before you. All the recommendations which
I have made on this subject result from a careful
scrutiny of the operation of your present Act, during
the two years that I have had the honour of serving
you. Each separate paragraph of my enumeration
founds itself upon a distinct recollection of occasions
(sometimes numerous) wherein, for want of
such enactments, nuisances which you were anxious
to suppress have eluded your authority, or advantages
which you were desirous to realise have stood
beyond your attainment.
It was in the nature of things that this should be
so; for the period has been one of experiment.
When the City Sewers Act became law for a period
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