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the Council. This work was completed during 1900, and the
other arches have since provided sanitary accommodation as
necessary.
No action was taken by the Council in respect of the onestoried
shops in the Station Road, opposite the Arches, 011
account of practical difficulties in carrying out the structural
alterations necessary, e.g., small size of shops, one external
wall only to each shop, &c.
Unsound Food.
No legal seizures of unsound food have been found necessary
during 1906, though in 5 instances voluntary surrenders have
been made by the vendors, and the food destroyed, as follows:—
March 3rd, 1 box of roes (Vauxhall Ward) ; April 18th,
2000 cases of tinned salmon* (Marsh Ward); July 30th,
54 cases of meat essence. (Vauxhall Ward); September 2nd,
1 cwt. of rabbits (Brixton Ward); October 15th, 14 cwts. of
Mussels (Brixton Ward).
The Council during 1906 decided to ask the Local Government
Board to simplify the law with regard to unsound food so as to
enable proceedings to be taken against the wholesale dealer as
the person responsible for the sale of unsound food by himself
or his servant.
Sewer Ventilators in Norwood.
From time to time, the sewer ventilators in certain of the roadways
in Norwood have been complained of, and during 1906 the
Council decided, as an experiment, to deal with the nuisance by
coupling up certain stunt ends of sewers and by erecting
ventilating shafts (Gipsy Road, Romany Road, Casewick Road,
Auckland Hill, &c.).
* Samples were picked out and examined, and a large proportion
found to be " blown." The 2000 cases were a ship load, and were,
consequently, returned to the Dock from which they had been sent into
Lambeth Borough.