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The premises are regularly inspected by the Medical Officer of
Health, the Chief Inspector, and the District Inspector at milking
times and at other times.
Any defects elicited are pointed out to the owners and remedy
requested. As a rule, the work called for is done at once.
MILKSHOPS AND DAIRIES.
The number of persons registered during the year as purveyors
of milk was 56; during the same period 34 names were removed
for various reasons.
The total number left on the register was 265.
The majority of these sell milk in small general or grocery
shops-a farthing's worth, or a halfpenny worth at a time, selling
perhaps 3 or 4 quarts per day.
The registration of these persons is made under the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885, Clause 6. Under this
clause it is incumbent upon the Council to register the applicant,
quite irrespective of the character of the premises, or of any other
business carried on along with the sale of milk.
By the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908,
Section 5, however, the Metropolitan Borough Councils were
empowered to remove from the register kept by them of persons
from time to time carrying on in their district the trade of
cowkeepers, dairymen, or purveyors of milk; or to refuse to
enter upon the register the name of any person carrying on or
proposing to carry on the trade of dairyman or purveyor of milk
upon premises which are, in the opinion of the Sanitary Authority
for any reason unsuitable for the sale of milk therein.