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regard to the refusal to enter, and was granted an order to
enter if needs be by force. This was executed in the
afternoon with assistance and under police protection.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector with Inspector Tedham found
large quantities of plums in various parts of the building
and in the back yard, but all the heaps had notice boards
with a chalked notice "All these plums are condemned and
all plume on the premises." There were in all about four
tons and, but for these notices being affixed, the Inspector
would have seized them, as they were obviously unsound
and worse than those seized during the morning.
In order to prevent, if possible, these being carted away
and used for human food, (as suggestions had been made
that they might be useful for jam making), arrangements
were made to keep the premises under observation the whole
of Saturday night, Sunday, and Sunday night. On Monday,
the 1st September, the whole of the four tons were surrendered
and taken to the Council's Destructor.
Information was received on the 3rd September that a,
further consignjment of 16 tons of similar plums had been
released for delivery at 92, Plumstead Road. The occupiers
on delivery commenced sorting them and the premises were
continually inspected during the days that this was in progress,
but none of the sorted plums were approved by the
Sanitary Inspectors a,nd the owners were threatened with
seizure if they attempted to expose any of them for sale.
Ultimately the whole of the 16 tons were surrendered and
destroyed.
The whole of these plums, including those seized, were
found to have come from Germany, but considerable difficulty
was experienced in finding who was the actual owner of them.