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An order of the London County Council, dated 21st December, j892,
placing the portion of Clerkenwell Road, in the Parish of the
Charterhouse, under the exclusive management of the Vestry
of Clerkenwell.
Shelter, 47 Northampton Road—The St.
Luke's Vestry have discontinued their joint tenancy
of the shelter provided by this Vestry for persons
requiring accommodation while their homes are
being disinfected.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act.—The Vestry have
during the year made arrangements for the analysis
of private purchasers' samples of food and drugs,
and have decided that any resident of the parish
(traders excepted) shall be allowed, upon payment
of 2s. 0d., to bring to the Vestry any article of food or
drugs (purchased or delivered in the parish) for the
purpose of being tested by the public Analyst.
Should the sample submitted prove to be
adulterated, the report will be handed over to the
Inspector of the district, with the name and address
of the seller, for the purpose of his taking samples in
conformity with the Act, and if in that case the
sample is found to be adulterated, the 2s. 6d.
deposited by the person bringing the sample will be
returned to him. The rule has been printed on the
back of the ratepapers, but up to the present time
practically no advantage has been taken of the
arrangement by the parishioners.
The Vestry in March, 1894, received a letter from
the Local Government Board on the subject of the
analyses made by the chemical officers of Somerset
House under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act,
urgiug that samples of sufficient quantity should be
purchased and that the utmost promptitude should
be used in the transmission of samples to the