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The names of the licensees and the localities of the Kensington slaughter-houses are as
follow: —
North Kensington.
Lonsdale Mews Mr. Grove.
13, Archer Mews ,, Bawcombe.
10. Edenham Mews „ Goddard.
195, Clarendon Road ,, Simmons.
285, Walmer Road Mrs. Van.
4, Royal Crescent Mews Mr. Brooker.
278, Kensal Road ,, Miles.
South Kensington.
60, Kensington High Street Mr. Evans.
35, Earl's Court Road Mrs. Matson.
21, Peel Place, Silver Street Mr. Osborne.
25, Silver Street ,, Wright.
133, High Street, Notting Hill ,, Candy.
113, Holland Park Avenne „ Holloway.
128, Marlborough Road ,, Bolton.
The premises in Kensal-road and Marlhorough-road were transferred from Chelsea to Kensington
in November, 1900. At the same time, a Kensington slaughter-house at Silchester-road passed
to the control of the Borough Council at Hammersmith.
LICENSED COW-HOUSES.
Two cow-houses, in North Kensington, were licensed by the County Council in October.
The premises were regularly visited by the sanitary inspectors, and were inspected, in September,
by the Public Health Committee. There were only five cows in the houses; not many years
ago there were 28 houses, containing about 500 cows. There has been a considerable reduction in
the number of cow-houses in the Metropolis, as a whole; viz., from 1,044 in 1880, to 298 in 1901.
The County Council have intimated to cowkeepers that their Public Health Committee are of
opinion that in the case of premises newly licensed, the recommendation of the Royal Commission
on tuberculosis, that no cow-house should be erected within 100 feet of a dwelling-house should
be observed. The Council can, of course, enforce this condition if they think fit.
The names of the licensees and the localities of the Kensington cow-houses are as follow:—
187, Walmer Road Mr. Arnsby. | 5, Ledbury Mews Mr. Liddiard.
Dairies Order.—The Council, as Local Authority for the registration of milkshops, etc.,
received last year numerous applications for registration, a subject with which I dealt in a
report to the Public Health Committee (24th September) in relation to applications where the
premises could not be deemed suitable for the storage of milk. At many small general provision
shops milk is sold in insignificant quantity—not more than can be contained in a small vessel
standing on the counter. It is kept on sale mainly for the convenience of customers, but
also in self-defence, lest customers should be induced to transfer their dealings to shops where
this necessary article of diet is to be obtained. The local authority appear to have no power
to refuse compliance with applications for registration, but power only to enforce the regulations
made under the provisions of the Order. The medical officer of health of the County Council
informed me that the Council, when local authority, had always acted on the principle that all
applicants for registration must be registered; but that a letter was usually sent to persons whose
premises were regarded as unfit. The vendor in such a case was told that "the premises are quite
unsuitable for carrying on the sale of milk," and was requested without delay, to "provide a suitable
place for storing milk, and for washing and storing the utensils, or at once cease the sale of
milk." The regulations dealing with the subject are to the following effect:—
"3. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall not keep milk for sale in any
place where it would be liable to become infected or contaminated by gases or effluvia arising
from any sewers, drains, gullies, cesspools, or closets, or by any offensive effluvia from
putrid or offensive substances, or by impure air, or by any offensive or deleterious gases or
substances.
"4. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall only keep milk for sale in
clean receptacles ; and all utensils used in connection with the keeping or sale of such milk
shall be at all times kept clean.
"5. Every purveyor of milk, or person selling milk by retail, shall at all times employ such
means, and adopt such precautions as may be necessary for preserving the purity of milk,
and for protecting it against infection or contamination."
The containing vessels at the little shops referred to are kept clean; but the air of the premises
cannot be described as "pure"; the commonly prevailing odour being that of mineral oil, or
that of some one or other of the miscellaneous articles of food, cooked and uncooked, vended
thereat. I should be glad to see a better state of affairs, but do not know how the poor people
in the localities referred to would be able to obtain the modicum of milk they want were the
regulations strictly enforced.
At the close of the year 274 premises were on the register.