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Sanitary Administration.
adopted in this district for the detection of fraudulent tradesmen
seems to be somewhat farcical.
Anyone who has had experience of "sampling" knows that it
is a simple matter to take samples, but it is a different matter to
procure adulterated samples.
No good purpose would be served by going into the details of
sampling, but this fact is apparent.
A Sanitary Inspector, having some experience of the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts, should be instructed by the L.A. to take
samples of food, as in other Urban Districts. They are the officers
who have any knowledge of the varying circumstances or know the
itinerant traders who frequent the district.
Fish frying is the only offensive trade, and is now controlled
by Bye-laws. There are 7 such shops in the district.
The Public Health Authority have received a complaint,
signed by twelve householders, certifying that the trade of a Fish
Fryer, as carried on at White Hart Lane, causes effluvia and is
a nuisance or injurious to the health of the inhabitants, the Public
Health Committee have directed the Clerk to apply to the Justices
for summons against the person by or on whose behalf the trade
complained of is carried on with the view to enforcing penalties as
provided by Section 114 of the Public Health Act, 1875.
Alterations made to satisfaction of M.O.H. Summons dismissed,
with costs against defendant.