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Metropolitan Board
of Works.
School Board for
London.
1878
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
9,677
3
11
10,373
17
3
1879
11,790
14
11
11,233
13
6
1880
13,093
4
6
13,084
12
6
1881
12,904
5
10
13,353
18
3
1882
13,771
0
6
13,081
0
0
1883
14,261
10
0
15,700
16
0
1884
15,462
15
10
19,071
13
5
1885
17,913
1
1
21,141
13
4
1886
17,659
16
7
22,684
2
3
1887
19,238
12
0
21,522
17
10
The Precepts for the current year are—Metropolitan
Board of Works, £21,553 0s. 7d.; School Board for London,
£20,756 2s. 6d.
[: SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The proceedings taken by the Board under these Acts
{show that out of 119 samples of food analysed during the
year 110 proved to be genuine.
Ratepayers are again invited to avail themselves of the
1 facilities offered by the Board in aid of the working of these
'. Acts, as set out in following notice:—
The Notice referred to.
1"Thc attention of the Board having been called to the desirability
of giving greater facilities than at present exist to the
1 general public in aid of the working of ' The Sale of Food and
I Drugs Acts,' they have now made arrangements with the Public
i Analyst of the District, Mr. C. Ileisch, of 79, Mark Lane, E.C.,
whereby samples and articles desired by any resident in the
I District to be analysed may be left with the Secretary of the
I Board during office hours, at their Offices, and no further trouble
i in the matter need then fall on such resident, as, in the event of
-such sample proving upon analysis to be adulterated, the resident
a is not compelled to prosecute the seller. A fee of 2s. Gd., which
i must be paid at once, will be charged for each sample brought by