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Vestry the whole proceedings were placed before the
Home Secretary.
Report on Seizure of Putrid Fowls and the Magistrate's
Decision thereon.
Mr. Richards, the Inspector of Nuisances, reported to the
Sanitary Committee that on Saturday night, the 4th May, about
10 o'clock he was present in the York Road, and saw
Richard Garlic, of 108, Sheepcote Lane, with a pony and cart,
selling fowls, that having ascertained that the fowls were
putrid, he (the Inspector) endeavoured to seize them but Garlic
jumped into the cart and drove away, the Inspector however
succeeded in getting into the cart also, when Garlic drove
furiously along York Road and Battersea Park Road, towards
Culvert Road and back again, down Simpson Street, Henry Street,
and Castle Street using threats to the Inspector meanwhile, upon
reaching the corner of Althorpe Grove Garlic stopped the pony
and the Inspector endeavoured to seize the fowls, Garlic resisting
and a large crowd collecting sympathised with him; a policeman
then appeared and the Inspector called him and explained
the position of affairs and requested him to prevent a breach of
the peace. The Inspector having removed about thirty of the
fowls from the cart and placed them on the footpath, Garlic in
the presence of the Constable thrust the Inspector violently aside
and threw the fowls into the cart. The Inspector then requested
the Constable to arrest Garlic but he refused to do so and went
away. Garlic again jumped into the cart and drove off amidst
cheers from the crowd. The pony was driven in the direction
of Battersea Square, and when opposite the "Raven" public
house, Garlic attacked the Inspector and endeavoured to throw
him from the cart. After considerable difficulty the Inspector
with the assistance of a few of the residents in the locality
managed to get the pony and cart to the Stone Yard, and seized
forty-two fowls which were submitted to me as the Medical
Officer of Health, on the following morning. I declared
them to be putrid and totally unfit for human food, and on