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NOTICES SERVED
Informal notices served 386
Statutory Notices served:—
Section 39, Public Health Act, 1936 5
45, Public Health Act 1936 7
„ 56 Public Health Act 1936 2
„ 75, Public Health Act, 1936 7
89, Public Health Act, 1936 1
93, Public Health Act, 1936 32
„ 38, Shops Act, 1950 1
„ 57, Food and Drugs Act, 1938 1
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
(a) Public Health Act, 1936.
It was found necessary to make only one application to the
Magistrates for a Nuisance Order; this was granted and £2 2s. 0d.
costs imposed.
(b) Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Proceedings were taken against a dairyman for selling a
bottle of milk which contained insect larvae. He brought before
the Court the firm from whom he had obtained the milk and they
were found guilty and fined £5 with £15 15s. 0d. costs.
(c) Middlesex County Council Acts, 1944-1950.
Proceedings were taken against three itinerant caravan
dwellers. Fines of £1 1s. 0d. were imposed in two instances and
£5 in the third case.
In another case a fine of 10s. Od. was inflicted on the owner
of an unauthorised caravan site; the occupiers of the site were
unconditionally discharged.
MOVEABLE DWELLINGS
The number of caravans in the district has remained at a
high level. The result of legal proceedings taken against the owner
of one of the worst sites in the district indicated that unless the
Council could offer alternative accommodation only nominal
penalties would be inflicted.
Progress in connection with the establishment of the Council's
own site has been slow. Negotiations for the acquisition of a
suitable site broke down and resort had to be made to Compulsory
Purchase procedure. The Minister's decision arising from the
public enquiry which was held in connection with the latter had
not been made known at the end of the year.
The comparative freedom of the district from gypsies, in
contrast to the experience of other Local Authorities in this area,
is no doubt due to the policy of enforcing the provisions of the
Middlesex County Council Act. A perusal of Legal Proceedings,
found elsewhere in this report, shows that the penalties inflicted
against this type of caravan dweller were sufficiently heavy to act
as a deterrent to a speedy return to the district.
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