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Herrings, haddocks, kippers, mixed fish, crabs, mussels, conger
eels, rabbits, potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, black currants
and plums.
Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, five hundred
samples are taken annually, and during the year under report,
milk again received special attention, representing more
than 33 per cent, of the total number of samples taken.
In consequence of the number of cases of arsenical poisoning
occurring in some parts of the country as the result of drinking
poisoned beer, it was considered desirable to procure samples in
Battersea, and eighteen such were taken, which upon analyses,
were found to be free from arsenic or other foreign poisonous
matter.
Bakehouses. The usual half-yearly inspections of bakehouses
were carried out in the months of April and September.
There are at present one hundred and ten such premises in
Battersea. At the April inspection ninety-nine of these were in
use, and the necessary limewhiting, &c., had been carried out,
except in seventeen instances, in which the Health Committee
directed statutory notices to be served. In September, the same
number were in use, and it was necessary to serve fourteen
statutory notices. At the last inspection those in use consisted
of forty-one bakehouses above ground, ten semi-basement, and
forty-eight entirely beneath the floor level.
Cowhouses and Slaughterhouses. The usual annual inspection
was carried out by a Sub-Committee of the Health Committee,
previous to the meeting of the Licensing Committee of the
London County Council, when it was found that with few
exceptions, the same were in good and clean condition. No
objection was offered by the Health Committee to the renewal
of the licenses, but they directed that the attention of the
Licensing Committee should be called to defects existing at three
of the premises. Application for the renewal of the license
in respect of No. 43 Usk Road, was not made, and the same