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8. Unsound Food.—Inspectors Winter, Coates, and myself hold the
certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute as Inspector of Meat and Foods. My
Inspectors regularly, and I myself at (purposely) irregular intervals, visit the
coster stalls on The Green and near Angel Bridge. Concerning seizure of
unsound plums, see " Market on The Green."
On May 19th, at Clerkenwell Police Court, one of our butchers and one of
our holders of a slaughter-house license were summoned with regard to tuberculous
meat being sent for sale to Finsbury meat market. The former was
convicted and fined.
The Officials of the Middlesex County Council frequently take samples of
milk, food and drugs from tradesmen in Edmonton, and successful prosecutions
have been instituted by the County, when adulteration or substitution was
revealed on analysis by the County Chemists.
9. Offensive Trades.—Gutscraper. On the 26th August, 1913, the
Council sealed the new by-laws for the regulation of the offensive trade of gutscraper
in Edmonton Urban District, and they were confirmed by the Local
Government Board on 15th September of that year. In May, instructions were
given to serve a nuisance notice on our one trader under the Public Health
Act, 1875, and the Factory and Workshop Act, 1890. In July there was a consultation
between the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, the Inspector of
Nuisances and the Medical Officer of Health with the Council's solicitor, when
it was decided that the latter should take counsels' opinion on some legal points.
In December, several persons who had commenced the business of rag and
bone dealers contrary to an Order of the Local Government Board, dated 9th
May, 1912, were warned by our Clerk that they must not carry on such an
offensive trade without the written consent of the Council.
In April, advertisement was made that the by-laws of the London County
Council for regulating the business of a curer or a vendor of fried fish respectively
would then come into force throughout the administrative County of
London.
10. Stables —In January, a set of stables was erected in Maldon Road.
From May to December, there was trouble and delay caused by the unauthorised
erection of a 3-stall stable and carl shed near the gutscrapers. The building was
finally unroofed.
In October, a successful prosecution was taken against a man in Monmouih
Road for using an improper building for a horse.