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Cow houses.
There is now only 1 licensed cow-house in Battersea,
situate at 17 Wiseton Road.
Slaughter houses.
There were three slaughter-houses on the register at the
end of the year, and the number of inspections carried out
was 472.
Food Control Order.
During the year a sample of milk, purchased under the
provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act by the Food
and Drugs Inspector, was submitted to the Public Analyst,
and was reported by him to be "artificially coloured."
Proceedings were ordered to be taken by the Health
Committee against the vendor of the sample under the provisions
of the Milk Order (Food Control), 1920. At the
request of the Food Commissioner for London, to whom the
case was referred by the Borough Solicitor, the proceedings
were undertaken by the Council. The defendant was ordered
by the Court to pay £2 2s. costs.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
The total number of samples taken under these Acts
during 1920 was 1,000.
Of this number 73 (i.e., 7.3 per cent.) were certified by
the Analyst to be not of the nature, substance and quality
demanded by the purchaser. Five samples were, in addition,
reported as beine of inferior quality.
The following table gives details of the articles of which
samples were procured for purpose of analysis:—