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Slaughter-Houses.—The following are the Slaughterhouses
situated in Finsbury:—
14, Penton Street 39, Bath Street*
20, Amwell Street 102, Central Street*
191, Goswell Road* 37, Chiswell Street*
These six slaughter-houses have been regularly inspected.
The premises are comparatively small and are not well situated.
They are, however, kept clean, and the paving and drainage is
good. The slaughter-house in St. John Street has been closed
recently, as it was situated in an insanitary area for which an
improvement scheme (demolition and reconstruction) is being
carried out by the London County Council. The slaughterhouses
marked with an asterisk are licensed only to kill small
cattle.
MILK SUPPLY.
At the time of the formation of the Borough, in November,
1900, the Registration of Milk Sellers and Dairymen, including
various powers and duties, was transferred from the London
County Council to the Metropolitan Borough Councils under
Section 5, sub-Section 1, of the London Government Act, 1899.
The regulations thus to be enforced by the Borough Councils
come under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1885
and the Amending Orders of 1886 and 1899, and comprise matters
of registration, sanitary construction, ventilation, water supply, the
health of the cattle in the cowsheds, the cleanliness of the
utensils used in dairying and the protection of milk from infection
and other forms of contamination. In the Borough there are
registered 280 milk-shops, and each of these was inspected
periodically during 1902. A list of coffee-shops, restaurants,
&c., where milk is consumed on the premises has also been made
for purposes of reference, but such places are not, of course,
registered. If milk is served on such premises to customers in
their own receptacles, the occupier is called upon to register his
premises.