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Underground Room's.
Twenty-one basement rooms were found to be illegally occupied. For some years past
steps have been taken to prevent reoccupation of such rooms after death or removal of a
tenant. This is of course only a first step; others must sooner or later be taken as there is
not much prospect of the movement of any considerable number of occupiers from such rooms
in the ordinary course of events. The matter is one which will doubtless soon receive careful
consideration by the Holborn Housing of the Working Classes Committee and the Holborn
Public Health Committee.
Housing Act, 1930.
Members of the Council are aware that the Boswell Court site is in the Ward;
the new flats proposed on this site might probably be used directly or indirectly
to deal with the comparatively few cases of overcrowding in the Ward, and with
overcrowding elsewhere in the Borough, also with the largish number of underground
occupations both here and in the rest of the Borough. Constant supervision
will of course be maintained, and it is probable that the Housing Committee will
consider, ab no very distant date, the desirability of defining a part of this Ward
as an " Improvement Area " under the Housing Act, 1930.
FOOD.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
By the provisions of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, made under the Milk
and Dairies Consolidation Act, 1915, no person is allowed to carry on the trade
of a dairyman or use any premises as a dairy unless he and such premises are
registered with the local sanitary authority. Power is given to the sanitary
authority under the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, under certain
conditions to refuse to register a retail purveyor of milk or to remove such person
or premises from the register. In connection with the duties imposed on the
Council respecting registration, opportunity is taken before entering the premises
or the name of the applicant on the register to inspect the premises proposed
to be used for the dairy purpose, to ascertain whether they are suitable for the
sale of milk thereon. From time to time it has been necessary to postpone
registration pending the completion of works found to be required.
At the end of the year 1930, the number of registered dairies and milk shops
in the Borough was 126.
In addition to my inspections the Sanitary Inspectors made 83 inspections of
milk premises and it is satisfactory to record that it was not found necessary to
serve notice for sanitary defects or breach of the Orders in any case.
One retail dairy was removed from the register on the closure and demolition
of the shop. In nine cases alterations in the register became) necessary owing to
alteration in ownership.
An application was received from a Company trading as wholesale dairymen
and provision merchants for registration of premises in the Borough for the sale
of milk wholesale. On inspection it was found that the premises previously
registered for the retail sale of milk had become unsuitable for the purpose and
that arrangements for the storage, etc., of milk were unsatisfactory. The Public
Health Committee therefore refused the application for registration and removed