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compliance with the requirements of the notice was reasonable; and whether
those requirements have been complied with or not. Then, as to the extent of
the punishment, he has all the ordinary powers of a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
Beyond that he has no further jurisdiction, consequently this case
must be remitted with an expression of our opinion to that effect.
This expression of the Judges' opinion was conveyed to the
Magistrate, who convicted the defendant, inflicting at the same time
a nominal fine and costs.
The number of notifications of infectious of disease during the
year was 2563. Inspection of the dwellings where the disease existed
was made in each instance. Nuisances were found in a large number
of the houses. The rooms occupied by the infectious patients were
disinfected, the walls, &c. being cleansed in 727 cases by the Vestry's
workmen. In 5 instances accommodation was provided under Sec.
60, (4) for persons who were compelled to leave their rooms during
disinfection.
Articles seized as unfit fob Human Food.—During 1896,
one ton, fourteen hundred-weight and three quarters of fish, fruit,
vegetables, and meat were seized by the Inspectors and brought
before a Magistrate, who condemned them as unfit for human food,
and ordered their destruction. The department is rather embarassed
by the fact that there is no machinery for the destruction of these
articles in the parish. Hitherto, the Surveyor to the Whitechapel
Board of Works has allowed them to be destroyed in their dust
destructor. Destruction by fire is the only sanitary mode of disposal
of bad food, and I would strongly advise the erection of a crematory
furnace for this purpose in the parish.
Cowsheds and Slaughter-houses.—The whole of the Cowsheds
in the district were visited and inspected by the new Committee
during the year, and were found in a satisfactory condition. One
licence which had been opposed by the Sanitary Committee, the
previous year, was refused by the London County Council, the
licensing authority. The Slaughter-houses, 37 in number, were also
inspected and were found in a good sanitary state