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During the past three or four years complaints from time to time have been
frequently received, and the Company have been communicated with on several
occasions, but without any permanent good results. Last year proceedings were
taken before a magistrate, and an order was made for the abatement of the nuisance.
For a time the nuisance was not observed. This year complaints again were received,
and the offenders were summonsed for not complying with the Vestry's notice, and a
fine of £5 with £2 2s. costs was inflicted by the magistrate.
Similar proceedings were taken in respect to the shaft on the premises of the
Hoxton Brewery Company. Frequent complaints have from time to time been
received, and last year an order was made for the abatement of the nuisance by the
magistrate. This year a penalty of £10 was inflicted.
COFFEE SHOPS, EATING HOUSES, FRIED FISH SHOPS, AND OTHER
PREMISES WHEREON FOOD IS PREPARED FOR THE PUBLIC.
The importance, from a public health pomt of view, of all premises whereon food
is prepared for the consumption of the public, being in first-class sanitary condition,
and kept free from drain effluvia, is sufficiently obvious to need but few words. Too
much care cannot be taken with respect to food to ensure its being preserved from
contamination, and I am inclined to believe that disease is conveyed to a much greater
extent than is yet fully realised through want of precautions in this direction. The
question of the preparation and sale of food in Shoreditch came under the consideration
of the Public Health Committee in connection with a communication from the London
County Council enclosing a copy of a report from the Council's medical officer of
health on the subject of the preparation and sale of food in London, and also during
the consideration of proposed amendments of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The Shoreditch Vestry were of opinion that special provisions should be made for
dealing with premises or parts of premises where food is prepared, that premises used
for the manufacture of food should be kept exclusively for that purpose, and that the
re.ulations as to dairies, cowsheds, and milkshops made by the London County
Council, so far as they refer to infection or contamination by gases or effluvia arising
from sewers, drains, &c., to cleanliness of receptacles and utensils, and to the
preservation, purity, and protection from infection and contamination, should be
extended so as to apply to all places used for the manufacture, preparation, or sale
of food.
In Shoreditch there has been a good deal of sanitary work from time to time
carried out in the past in connection with restaurants, coffee houses, and the like,
which are numerous, especially in the southern portion of the parish. This year
attention was specially directed to their condit on, and the following summarises the
work carried out by the sanitary inspectors in connection with them