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Fulham 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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95.
Food Shops and Food Stalls.
All food stalls, shops, barrows and the Fulliam
Market have been kept under careful supervision during
the year; and in addition two of the Sanitary Inspectors
have been on special duty, as in previous years, on two
evenings a week in connection with these premises.
Slaughterhouses. There are two licensed slaughterhouses
in the Borough situated at:—
No. 611, Fulham Road.
No. 640, King's Road.
During the year, Inspector Manning made 113
visits of inspection to these premises.
The slaughterhouses, lairs and utensils have been
kept in a cleanly condition.
Milk. Of 550 samples examined, 4 or 0.7 per cent.
were adulterated as compared with 4.7 percent, in 1929,
2.5 per cent, in 1928, 1.5 per cent, in 1927 and 0.57
per cent, in 1926.
Details of legal proceedings instituted by the
Council will be found on page 101.
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Milk Sellers.
Number on Register, 31st December, 1929 120
Number who transferred their business during
the year 2
118
Number of Registrations granted during the
year 4
Number on Register, 31st December, 1930 222
During the year six applications were received for
permission to sell bottled sterilised milk from premises
which were not suitable for registration as dairies. The
necessary registrations were granted in every case, provided
the milk was not to be supplied otherwise than in
the closed and unopened receptacles in which it was
delivered to the premises.