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willingness to give a constant supply to the portion of the
parish within their district at the end of the year 1889.
At the close of the period under review the necessary
alterations to the service pipes in the portion of the parish
within the district of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Company, in connection with the constant supply, were being
rapidly proceeded with.
Seizure of Unsound Food. On the 22nd May the Vestry considered a report of
the Sanitary Committee to the effect that on Saturday
night, the 4th May, about ten o'clock, Inspector Richards was
present in the York Road and saw Richard Garlic, of No. 108,
Sheepcote Lane, with a pony and cart, selling fowls. Having
ascertained that the fowls were putrid, 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 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
again endeavoured to seize the fowls. Garlic resisted, and a
large crowd collected, and 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 then removed about thirty of the fowls
from the cart and placed them on the footpath, when 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 amid the cheers of the crowd in the direction of
Battersea Square, and when opposite the " Raven " publichouse,
Garlic attacked the Inspector and endeavoured to throw
him from the cart. After considerable difficulty the Inspector,
with the assistance of some of the residents in the locality,
succeeded in getting the pony and cart to the Vestry's Depot,