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PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants, and eating
houses of all sorts, slaughter-houses, tripe, offal, and other meat shops, fried fish,
eel and other fish shops, premises where ice cream is made, and other places where
food is prepared for sale, excluding bakehouses, which are given on previous page.
The number of these places on the register at the end of 1906 was 377;
1672 inspections were made, and 93 notices were served during the year for
sanitary defects found.
In addition to the above inspections of places where food is prepared for sale,
there were also 711 inspections of market streets, each of which includes a number
of stalls at which meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables are sold. These streets are also
regularly inspected on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.
There is now only one slaughter-house in the Borough, viz., No. 29, Red
Lion Street, which, in addition to my inspections, was inspected on 13 occasions
during the year.
The Council adopted a report and recommendation of the Public Health
Committee which includes the following:—
"We have in former years repeatedly expressed the opinion that
the existence of such establishments in crowded districts of central London
is not desirable.
" We are of opinion, however, having regard to all the circumstances,
that the abolition of the slaughter-house in question would be of very
little disadvantage to the occupier, and whilst we are not prepared to
advise the Council to oppose the renewal of the license this year, we think
that the facts set out in this report should be brought to the notice of the
Licensing Authority, and we are of opinion that if the license is renewed,
some intimation should be made to the applicant to the effect that it will
not be again renewed, thus giving him 12 months' notice with a view to
enable him to convert the slaughter-house to other purposes."
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND MILKSHOPS.
The number of registered dairies and milkshops in the Borough at the end of
the year was 187, of which 79 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 108 in the
Holborn District.
During the year 27 dairies and milkshop3 were newly registared, 15 belonging
to St, Giles and Bloomsbury, and 12 to the Holborn District. On application for