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BUTTER AND MARGARINE ACT, 1907.
One application for registration as a Butter Factory was received in regard to
premises at No. 55, Charterhouse Street, which premises were already registered in
respect of margarine.
Section 1 (3) of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907, enacts that premises shall
not be used as a butter factory if they form part of or communicate, otherwise than by a
public street or road, with the premises of manufacturers of or wholesale dealers in
margarine, and if premises are so used it shall be regarded as an offence against the
Act, and the Local Authorities shall remove such premises from the Register.
In order to comply with the terms of this section of the Act, proposed to
remove the margarine business to a chamber specially constructed in the basement, to
which access was obtained from the public street only. The business of butter blending
was then to be conducted in a room specially set apart for the purpose at the top of the
building.
Before these arrangements were completed, however, war was declared, and as the
trade of the firm in question was considerably affected by war contracts, the matter was
postponed sine die.
MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.
In accordance with the Standing Order of the Court that no person shall enter
the employ of the Corporation or any of its Committees without previously passing a
medical examination to the satisfaction of the Committee having cognizance of the
appointment, 44 persons were examined by the Medical Officer of Health during
1914, and without exception, all were reported as physically fit for office. Twenty
officers were also medically examined with a view to their retirement, and of these 19,
or 95 per cent., were reported to be unfit for duty.
In addition to the foregoing, medical examinations were made of persons accepted
by the Central (Unemployed) Body, on the recommendation of the City of London
Distress Committee, for employment on the Labour Colony at Hollesley Bay, established
by the Central Body under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
William J.Howorth.
Medical Officer of Health for the
Public Health Department. City of London. .
Guildhall, E.G.