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under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, and 30 Summonses
issued in respect of the above Samples found to be Adulterated.
The total number of Articles of Bedding, Clothing
&c., disinfected by the Vestry after Infectious disease
during the same period was 4,018.
THAT your Petitioners in addition to the above work
perform the whole of the Scavenging and Cleansing work
required throughout their Parish, having in their employ, in
addition to the necessary Officers for superintending this
work, about 389 Men, 106 Horses, and all the necessary
Carts, Water Vans, Plant, &c. The quantity of House Refuse
collected during the past year ending Lady-day, 1891, was
31,298 loads, and about 35,000 loads of slop.
YOUR Petitioners are desirous of bringing the above
facts before your Honourable House in order to show the
magnitude and manner in which the work is at present
being carried out under their authority, and that they have
diligently performed the duties in the best interest of the
Parish.
YOUR Petitioners welcome the Consolidation of Acts
relating to Sanitary matters in the Metropolis, and recognise
the usefulness of many of the new provisions contained in
the Public Health (London) Amendment Bill, but they
would respectfully submit that this measure should be
amended as hereinafter set forth, in order that the many
useful amendments of the existing law it contains may not
be rendered inoperative and distasteful to the Local
Authorities whose duty it will be to carry out and may be
the means of debarring men of position and independence