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districts) than by the London County Council, acting for the
whole of the administrative County of London. The inspections
are more systematic, and more frequent, with the result that the
states of the Cowhouses (at least as far as Lambeth Borough is
concerned) are better as to cleanliness and general sanitation.
No single summons has had to be taken out on account of contravention
of a Bye-law.
DAIRIES, MILK-SHOPS AND MILK-STORES.
Several new Milk-shops and Milk-stores have been registered
during 1903, and all existing ones have been under inspection. A
Register has been completed during 1903.
Proposed Municipal Milk Depot.
The question of the establishment of a Municipal Sterilised
Milk Depot for Lambeth has been under consideration during
1903 by the Borough Council, who decided on July 9th, 1903 in
favour of the principle of the establishment of such, provided the
Local Government Board would allow the necessary expenses
out of the Rates. This the Local Government Board refused—
there being no legal authority for such an expenditure being
charged upon the General Rates, and so the question is, unfortunately,
held, for the present, in abeyance. In view of the
fact that Provincial Towns (e.g, Liverpool, St. Helen's, Glasgow,
Manchester, etc.) are allowed to incur the necessary expenses out
of the Rates, the Local Government Board has given, as regards
London, a most unfortunate, and (it would seem) a most inequitable,
decision. For the present at least, other means will
have to be trusted to, for lessening the existing abnormal infantile
mortality and morbidity, due to irregular and improper feeding.
*In Battersea Borough, the Local Government Board has remitted the
disallowance made by the Public Auditor, "in the exercise of the equitable
jurisdiction conferred upon the Board," shewing that the Board has,
apparently, sympathy with local authorities in their proposals to establish
Municipal Milk Depots.
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