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"capable of improvement, but it did not affect the result of the trial. The
"application must therefore be dismissed.
"Lord Justice Mathew delivered judgment to the same effect, in the course
"of which he said that there was no reason whatever for any reflection upon
"the defendant company. They had imposed stringent conditions upon the
"farmers from whom they obtained the milk, but it was obviously impossible,
"where their milk was drawn from different parts of the country, to see that each
"farmer complied in every respect with their conditions and requirements. He
"(the Lord Justice) regretted that the use of the word 'Aylesbury' in the name
"of the defendant company was reflected upon by the learned Judge. He desired
"to say that he did not concur in those reflections, and in his opinion the defendant
"company came well out of the inquiry.
"Lord Justice Cozens-Hardy agreed."
THE SPITTING EVIL.
The principal Railway Companies, with one exception, recast their Byelaws
during the year, and, it is satisfactory to note, availed themselves of the
opportunity to add Bye-laws making spitting on platforms, booking offices,
&c., or in railway carriages, a punitive offence. In each case the wording
of the new Bye-law is identical, and has been duly allowed and approved
by the Board of Trade. It is to the following effect:—
"No. 22.— No person shall spit upon the floor or upon any part of any carriage
"using or being on the railway, or upon the platform at any station of the Company,
"or upon the floor, side or wall of any hall, office, waiting-room, refreshment-room,
"public room, or public passage at any station of the Company. Any person
"infringing or not observing this bye-law and regulation shall be liable to the penalty
"prescribed by Bye-law No. 1, and in case of non-compliance with the request of any
"servant or agent of the Company to desist, may, without prejudice to any such
"penalty, be forthwith removed from the Company's premises by or under the
"direction of any such servant or agent.
The penalty referred to is a fine not exceeding forty shillings for a first
offence, and not exceeding £5 for any subsequent offence.
Hitherto Railway Companies have been powerless to do more than appeal
to a public sense of decency by exhibiting cautionary notices against spitting
in carriages, &c., but unhappily there still exists a section of the community to
whom such appeal is useless. The Railway Companies are now armed with a
ready means of dealing with such persons, who can be made to pay smartly
for indulging in indiscriminate expectoration, and it is to be hoped that the
public will render the Companies every assistance in the enforcement of this
Bye-law.
TELEPHONE MOUTHPIECES.
Representations having been made from time to time as to the
danger of infection from the use of telephone mouthpieces in Public
Call Offices, and it especially being suggested that Tuberculosis and