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Dr. J. M. Hamill in his Report on the presence of calcium sulphate in
baking powder and in self-raising flour, states that some of the samples contained
50% or even more of calcium sulphate and an appreciable amount of
arsenic, and that administrative action ought to be taken to prevent this.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eatinghouses
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 1910 was 387;
2,216 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 908 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 11
occasions during the year. Only sheep are killed, and there was but little
slaughtering during the year.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
The number of registered dairies and milkshops in the Borough at the
end of the year was 172, of which 72 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and
100 in the Holborn District.
Under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908,
Section 5, any Sanitary Authority may remove from, or refuse to enter on the
Register, the name of any person carrying on, or proposing to carry on, the
trade of a dairyman or purveyor of milk, upon premises which are in the
opinion of such Sanitary Authority, for any reason unsuitable for the sale of
milk therein.
Details of the action taken were given in the last Annual Report.
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