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4 bullocks' livers (flukes) 10 bags peas
2 sheep (septicaemia) 249 lbs. tomatoes
3 bullocks' spleens (unsound) 6 boxes pears
1 do (tuberculous) 7 baskets strawberries
3 doz. sheeps' hearts 5 do. cherries
6 sheeps' livers (flukes) 2 do. gooseberries
14 ducks 10 do. apples
16 fowls 20 lbs. pomegranates
28 rabbits 1 bushel Spanish onions
Quantity ot sheeps' and ox kidneys 2 tins tomatoes (3 lbs. each)
do. tinned tongue 28 1 lb. tins condensed milk
1 basket crabs 4 1 lb. tins apricots
2 bushels winkles
The articles seized and dealt with in the manner prescribed by Sec. 47 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, were considerably fewer than in 1910, due in all
probability to the recognition by traders of the fact that careful inspections were
being made and that the Council were determined to carefully protect the public food
supply. The fact that so many dealers submitted so large a number of articles for examination
and voluntarily surrendered all considered unsound is open to the same explanation.
The following is a list of the articles seized:—
Seizures.
A quantity of pears (unsound). 10 lbs. beef (unsound).
Pig's head and fore quarter 2 pigs' heads (tuberculous),
(tuberculous). 3 sheeps' heads (unsound).
With regard to each of the articles named, a special report was submitted to the
Public Health Committee, who, after taking all the facts into consideration, gave
instructions as to whether or not proceedings should be instituted against the vendor.
In none of the cases reported during the year did the Committee regard the
circumstances to be such as to justify them in simply cautioning the offender. Full
particulars regarding the prosecutions are contained in the accompanying table.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Section 47.
Name of Result.
Inspector.Fine. Costs.
306, Edgware Road Exposing for sale a quan- G. Smith 2 0 0 0 12 6
tity of unsound pears
105, Church Street Exposing for sale a pig's G. Smith 5 0 0 2 4 0
head and a joint of pork,
which were diseased
Crawford Street Exposing for sale a quan- G. Smith 2 0 0 0 12 6
(stall in) tity of beef which was
unsound and unfit for
human food
93, Abbey Road Depositing on the premises G.Smith 2 0 0 1 3 0
three unsound sheeps'
heads which were unfit
for human food
72, North Street Exposing for sale two G. Smith 2 0 0 0 4 0
pigs' heads which were
diseased and unfit for 11
human food