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ming baths, is carried out at the Woolwich War Memorial Hospital. The bacteriological
examination of. milk samples is carried out partly at the Woolwich War
Memorial Hospital and partly at the Clinical Research Laboratory.
A minimum of 500 samples are purchased annually in accordance with the
provisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and the various Regulations
and Orders in which are laid down the standards for food. They are submitted
for chemical analysis to the Public Analyst.
During the first quarter of the year the work was carried out at the Royal
Institute of Public Health, arrangements having been made with Dr. Alan Stewart,
the Public Analyst of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington, pending the appointment
of a successor to the late Sir William Robert Smith, who died in March, 1932.
From the 1st April the work was carried out at 16, Southwark Street, London,
S.E. 1, the laboratory of the Public Analyst, Mr. Hugh Amphlett Williams.
v. Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations relating to Public Health
in Force in the District.
Adoptive Acts.—The Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899-1923, have been
adopted by the Council. During the year, the Borough Treasurer tells me, the Council
made 399 advances to purchasers of houses in accordance with the provisions of
these Acts.
By-laws and Regulations.—A complete list of the various by-laws and regulations
in force in the Borough was given in the Annual Report for 1930.
Transfer of Powers Order, 1933.—This Order came into operation on the 1st
April, 1933, and transferred the following duties to the Borough Council from the
London County Council:—
(a) Building Lines.—Power to prescribe a building line in relation to any part
of a highway not being a road classified by the Minister of Transport.
(b) Disused Burial Grounds.—Enforcement of prohibition of erection of buildings
on disused burial grounds.
(c) Seamen's Lodging Houses.—Enforcement of by-laws made by the County
Council relating to seamen's lodging houses, licensing and inspection of
seamen's lodging houses, and supervision of the sanitary condition of such
lodging houses, in accordance with the by-laws for the time being in force.