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Bromley 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Legal Proceedings.
(a) Slaughtering pigs without licence, fine 40/- and
warned.
(b) Under Section 306, P.H. Act, 1875, summons re
tenant preventing landlord complying with sanitary
notice; order made and obeyed.
(c) Shops Acts. Four summonses re selling sweets
after 8 p.m. on Sunday; fines in three cases of 20/each
and one of 5/-.
(d) Petroleum Acts. One summons for unlawfully
keeping petrol; fined £12.
Other Duties.
The Sanitary staff has, as usual, given a proportion of
their time to the administration of the Factory and Workshops
Act and the Shops Acts, as well as to the inspection
of various premises where petrol is kept under licence or
notice given.
The total of these premises is approximately as follows:—
Shops 721
Factories and Workshops 248
Petrol Stores 80
1,049
Matters arising out of the inspection of these premises
which require any action arc reported to, and dealt
with by, the Health Committee at their fortnightly meetings.