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Adulteration of Food Act.
The Inspectors report, that they had submitted to Dr. Tidy, for analysis,
eleven samples of milk. Three of these samples were found to be largely
adulterated ; that summonses were taken out against the respective sellers,
and the following fines were inflicted, viz., £5 and costs, 40s. and costs, and
10s. and costs. In the case in which £5 and costs were inflicted, the milk
was adulterated with 27 per cent, of added water. The same person was
summoned for a similar offence on the 4th July, 1878, when he was fined
40s. and costs. In all cases in which summonses are taken out by the officers
of your Board, the costs charged are only those which the officers have paid
for the summonses.
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
3rd April, 1880, (14 weeks).
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 3rd April, 1880.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 1881
Houses specially visited 273
Houses specially re-visited 955
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 338 premises 201
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 221 premises 71
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 2
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 12
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 131
ltooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 38
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 1133
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 28
Drains in houses improved 74
Dust-bins provided 8
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 69
Water supply provided or improved 25
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 37
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 27
Animals (cats) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 13
Cesspools abolished 0
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous
structures, which notices the Metropolitan Board have promptly attended to.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.