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PROSECUTION.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938 (Section 3).
Article. Offence. Result.
Sweets. Selling sweets described as 'Batter Selection' Plea of Guilty.
containing only 0.82 per cent. fat. Absolute discharge on payment
Butter Sweets should contain butter fat to the of Five Guineas costs.
extent of not less than 4 per cent.
MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACTS, 1928-1931.
No difficulty was experienced during the year in regard to the administration of the above Acts.
EXHUMATIONS AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY.
During the year the remains of six persons were exhumed from common graves and re-interred
in private graves, and the remains of one person were exhumed from a private grave and subsequently
cremated.
In accordance with the licences issued by the Home Office, a representative of the Medical Officer
of Health was present on each occasion.
PIGEON NUISANCE.
The Corporation, in exercise of their powers under Sec. 121 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1936, from time to time cause the number of pigeons in the City to be reduced when it appears to
them either that their number is excessive, or that complaints of their congregation in certain areas
are justified.
Certain pigeon-catchers are authorised by the Corporation to carry out the necessary trapping,
and during 1954, 550 pigeons were destroyed by this means.
CITY MORTUARY.
Bodies received 166
Post Mortem Examinations made 166
Inquest on bodies 38
Inquests held at Holloway Prison 1
Inquest on fires —
DISINFECTION AND CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS PERSONS, ETC.
Export of Clothing, &c. :—
No. of articles disinfected 1,131,167
Cases of horsehair 63
Fees received £3,876
General Disinfection. Infectious Diseases, &c.:—
Articles of bedding disinfected 123
Rooms disinfected after cases of infectious disease 11
Lockers at Post Offices disinfected 62
Verminous rooms disinfected 110
Ambulances, vans, &c., disinfected —
Police Cells disinfected 3
Cleansing of Persons :—
No. of verminous persons bathed 499
No. of verminous articles disinfected 4,897
Cleansing of Schoolchildren :—
No. of children cleansed 234
No. of articles disinfected 2,238
No. of children treated for Minor ailments 2,738
LONDON:
Printed by Drake, Driver & Leaver Ltd., Rosebery Avenue, E.C. 1.
1955.
850—A7278—7/55.