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Leather Lane (now No. 91). Legal proceedings for the closure of this bakehouse were
subsequently taken, and the closure took place on the 12th December, 1904, when the
new bakehouse, now 91, Leather Lane, was completed.
6, Lamb's Conduit Street. The certificate for the underground bakehouse was refused and the
basement is no longer used as an underground bakehouse.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants, and eating houses of all sorts, tripe,
offal, and other meat shops, fried fish, eel and other fish shops, and other places where food is prepared
for sale, excluding bakehouses, which are given above.
The number of these places on the register at the end of 1904 was 318; 925 inspections were
made, and 30 notices were served during the year for sanitary defects that were found.
I suggested to the Public Health Committee that voluntary certificates should be granted for the
kitchens of restaurants, eating houses, etc., that are found on inspection to be in a satisfactory sanitary
condition, or, after alterations have been made, in accordance with our requirements. These voluntary
certificates have been given in the City of London and the Borough of Southwark. The matter was
carefully considered by the Committee, but they finally decided to take no action in the matter for the
present.
OTHER SHOPS WHERE FOOD IS SOLD.
The inspection of other food shops includes 733 inspections of market streets, 19 provision
merchants and cheesemongers, 69 fruiterers and greengrocers, and 4 grocers and general shops.
SLAUGHTER.HOUSES.
The two slaughter.houses in the Borough :—
29, Red Lion Street, and
Yorkshire Grey Yard, Eagle Street,
were inspected on 39 occasions during the year.
Last July the Inspector and I, who were present together, found the slaughtering of sheep in
progress at the slaughter.house in the Yorkshire Grey Yard, with the door of the slaughter.house open
to the public, with a few youths standing close by. This slaughter.house, although in a public yard, is
not visible from Eagle Street. I cautioned the occupier, and he promised that he would slaughter in
future with the doors closed. I also wrote to the occupier giving him a copy of the by.law, and the
penalties to which he was liable, and that legal proceedings would be taken if a breach of the by.law
was again discovered. After my report the Committee also instructed the Town Clerk to address a
communication to the Clerk to the London County Council drawing attention to the breach of the
by.law, and intimating that while the Committee do not propose to offer any objection to the renewal of
the licenses, they must not be taken as approving of the continued maintenance of slaughter.houses and
cow.houses in crowded parts of the Metropolis.
OTHER OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only other offensive business in the Borough is that of a tripe dresser and boiler at
Nos. 67 and 68 Leather Lane. These premises are frequently inspected. They are included in the
Union Buildings Area and were acquired by the London County Council last year, and will soon
be demolished in accordance with the scheme for improving that area.