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In cases Nos. 2, 3 and 4, proceedings were subsequently
instituted and penalties obtained. In case No. 1, in view of the
circumstances that it was a first offence and that doubt existed as
to guilty knowledge on the part of the offender, he was duly
cautioned.
Food Supply. Among the important sources of food supply are
bakehouses, cowhouses and slaughterhouses, for
bread, milk and meat. The work carried out during the year
by the Sanitary Staff in connection therewith is here briefly
referred to.
Bakehouses
The half-yearly inspections of the bakehouses in
the Parish were duly carried out in the months of March
and September. There are at present one hundred and nine
bakehouses in the Parish. At the March inspection one hundrec
and two of these were in use, and the necessary cleansing anc
lime-washing had been carried out except in twenty-six instances
in which the Health Committee directed statutory notices to be
served. In September, one hundred and one were in use, and it
was necessary to serve notices in 24 instances. Of the bake
houses then in use, 39 were above ground, 11 semi-basement anc
51 below ground. During the heavy storms of the autumn, 10
of these were flooded.
Cow-houses
and
Slaughterhouses.
The importance of the supervision of these
premises has already been dealt with under the
subject of Tuberculosis, the cow-houses, on
account of the tendency to the disease in cattle if kept under
insanitary conditions, and the slaughter-houses for the detection
of diseased carcases being prepared for human food.
Previous to the meeting of the Licensing Committee
of the London County Council, a sub-committee of the Health
Committee made an inspection of the licensed slaughter-houses