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The consequence of this is obvious. The Assistant Inspector,
on finding unsound food, has to choose between persuading the
vendor to instantly destroy the perilous stuff (and thus ablate all
evidence of his own offence and the Inspector's alertness), and
leaving it where it is whilst he seeks the Medical Officer of Health
or Inspector of Nuisances, in the fond hope that the salesman will
be stupid enough not to conceal it at once. Happily, very little
positively unsound food is ever found in this district. Still, the law
as it stands, in this as in many other respects, favours the wrongdoer
and fails to protect the public in the shortest and most
obvious way.
The report of the County Inspector under the Food and Drugs
Act (another weak statute) will be found on page 63.
Sewerage and Drainage.
So far as the Council is concerned, all that has been done in
respect of sewerage—and all that has been necessary—during 1910,
has been the connection of new estates with the excellent and
adequate main sewers. As is known, the sewers for this district
join with those for Richmond, and the sewage from both places is
dealt with at the Joint Sewerage Works, controlled by a joint
Board composed of representatives from the two constituent
authorities.
During the year there has been a considerable increase in the
plant laid down at these works, which now are doubtless adequate
to any calls which may be made upon them for some time to come.
In the course of the kerbing and channelling operations
now in progress in White Hart Lane and other parts of the
district, opportunity will be taken to improve the road gullies,
and the disappearance of storm waters will naturally be
accelerated.