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Slaughterhouses.
There are 5 slaughterhouses in the Borough. On the whole these have been kept in fair
condition, though they require constant visiting. The nuisance most common was due to the
want of regularity in cleaning up after slaughter, and not putting offal immediately into proper
receptacles. If they are not visited for some time, neglect in this respect is sure to be found
creating a grave nuisance to the neighbours, and rendering the carcases liable to
contamination. The following is a list of the slaughterhouses and the defects remedied in
them: —
Defects remedied.
Address.
174, Jamaica Road
Water trough provided. Pounds properly enclosed. Paving
repaired. Zinc around walls repaired.
73, Grange Road
Trough provided.
205, Jamaica Road
Walls and floor repaired.
210, Lower Road
In good condition.
328, Old Kent Road
Do.
Milk Sellers.
The total number of milk sellers on the register is 265. This includes 7 cowkeepers and
258 dairymen and milk vendors. The cowkeepers have already been dealt with, and the
dairymen and milk vendors were mentioned under the heading of "Adulteration of Milk." In
visiting milk sellers one is struck very much with their want of knowledge as to the best way to
store milk in shops and other places. In small shops especially, the milk is nearly always in
open pans exposed to all the dust of the street, and, on making enquiries, I was informed there
is an impression that milk would not keep if covered. I pointed out, however, that at least in
summer when it is most important to keep it free from contamination, the best way to do this is
to see that the vessel is thoroughly clean, and to keep it covered over with a cloth kept damp
with water. The cloth not only keeps out the dust, but the evaporation from it tends to keep the
milk cool.
Offensive Trades.
The following is a list of the offensive trades: —
Tripe Boilers 1
Glue and Size Makers 4
Fellmongers 3
Fat Melters 4
Manure Manufacturers 1
These places have been regularly visited.
Offensive Matter.
Eight summonses were taken out, under the London County Council bye-laws, for
removing offensive matter through the streets during prohibited hours, or not properly covered.
Four of these summonses were against the owners and 4 against the carmen. On conviction
being obtained the summonses against the carmen were withdrawn. Fines and costs to the
amount of £8 6s. were inflicted.
Margarine Register.
Forty-three persons are on the register as wholesale dealers in margarine.
Ice Cream.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which came into force on
November 1st, contains the following clauses relative to ice cream: —
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice creams or other
similar commodity who within the County—
(a) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar commodity to be manufactured'
sold or stored in any cellar shed or room in which there is any inlet or opening to
a drain or which is used as a living room or sleeping room;
(b) In the manufacture sale or storage of any such commodity does any act or
thing likely to expose such commodity to infection or contamination or omits to
take any proper precaution for the due protection of such commodity from infection
or contamination; or
(c) Omits on the outbreak of any infectious disease among the persons
employed in his business or living or working in on or about the premises in or on
any part of which any such commodity as aforesaid is manufactured sold or stored
to give notice thereof forthwith to the Medical Officer of the Sanitary District in
which such business is carried on or such premises are situate;
shall be liable for every such offence on conviction in a Court of Summary Jurisdiction
to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
Every itinerant vendor of any such commodity as aforesaid shall if not himself the
manufacturer thereof exhibit in a legible manner on a conspicuous part of his barrow a
notice stating the name and address of the person from whom he obtains such commodity
and if such vendor is himself the manufacturer of such commodity he shall in the same
manner exhibit his own name and address. Every such itinerant vendor who shall fail
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