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Injuries received whilst cleaning machinery 1
„ „ ,, carrying a load in
Covent Garden Market 1
Injuries received in a lift 2
Injuries received by being run over by a train
at Charing Cross Station, S.E.R. (suicide) 1
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The Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
Under the above Act, 9 samples of Milk were submitted to your
Analyst for examination, and in one case the milk was found to be
adulterated. Legal proceedings were taken against the vendor,
with the result that he was fined twenty shillings and costs.
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act.
This Act has worked fairy well since its introduction. Some
little confusion and delay has occasionally occured, owing to the
certificate notifying the case being sent to the wrong sanitary
authority. I have known a certificate, which in the first instance
should have been transmitted to me, being sent to the St. Giles'
District Board, then forwarded by that authority to the Strand
District Board, who has sent it on to me. These mistakes arise from
the medical practitioner not knowing to which sanitary authority
the house belongs wherein the case occured.
At Table 8 will be found the list of cases coming under the
Act which were notified during the year.
Sanitary Legislation during the Year 1890.
In the year 1890, two Acts were passed relative to sanitation—
(1) Housing of the Working Classes Act, and the Infectious
Diseases (Prevention) Act.