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The owner of Nos. 10 and 13 Hereford Street was summoned
for disobedience to a sanitary notice, the work being
in progress at the time of hearing, the magistrate adjourned
the case for 28 days, and ultimately the summons was withdrawn.
The owner of 314, Edgware Road, was summoned for
neglecting to supply suitable drainage. The ownership
proved to be most complicated; leases, subleases and
assignments were plentiful. Ultimately it was considered
that the freeholder was responsible, and an order obtained
against him with costs. The freeholder raised the technical
objection that under the Act, he was not the "Owner" and
appealed. On the advice of Counsel it appeared that there
was some doubt as to whether the appellant was not technically
right and the case was settled out of Court by the
Council paying certain expenses. In the meantime the house
in question has been effectually drained by one of the lessees.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The work under these Acts was interfered with during
four or five weeks owing to the removal of the Laboratory
from the Town Hall to the present address in consequence
of which there was a slight diminution, in the number of
samples analysed as compared with 1901. The figures for
the two years being 1901, 646; 1902, 545. The tabulated
statement of the analyses is to be found in Table II, page 23.
Of the 545 samples 22 were reported adulterated. In
most of the above, prosecutions were instituted and the vendors
fined small sums, the minimum fine being £1, the maximum
£5-
The fines recovered under the Acts amounted to £41.
The definite Standards fixed by the Board of Agriculture
have worked well, they are not only decreasing the amount of
adulteration but they render the conviction of offenders easier.
SANITARY LEGISLATION, 1902.
There has been no statute passed directly bearing upon
sanitation, save "The Cremation Act, 1902, (2, Edward VII.,
c. 8).
This Act makes all the provisions of the Burial Acts
which refer to the provision of a burial ground, applicable
also to the provision of crematoria, it also applies for similar
purposes, the provisions of the Public Health (Interments)
Act, 1879.