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a defence on five occasions. But only in one instance were the
circumstances such as to justify the presumption that a prosecution
would be successful.
A retailer may produce a warranty from a small middleman,
who himself produces a warranty from another small wholesale
dealer and so on until the chain of warranties becomes involved
and intricate. And this is specially the case if the milk is derived
from a large distributing agency having warranties from each
one of its collectors.
If the milk is derived from a farm and, on each occasion of
transfer, passes unmixed through the hands of each intermediary
then in such a case a prosecution may be successfully launched
against the " false warrantor." This assumes that the farmer
keeps accurate systematic dated records of milking, and of the
daily movements of the churns, and is able and willing to give
the department the fullest information.
ICE CREAM SHOPS.
These are all registered and periodically inspected. Six were
added to the register and six removed in 1910, leaving 76 on the
register. They were inspected on 76 occasions and 17 notices
for sanitary and other defects served. There were no prosecutions.
The conditions of manufacture often leave much to be desired.
Restaurants.—There are 246 restaurants in the borough—
these are inspected regularly. The number of notices served was
125, the number of inspections 246. These premises are not included
in the sum total of workplaces given on another page.
Wholesale Dealers in Butter and Margarine.—Two
wholesale butter merchants transferred their trades to new dealers,