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important that the means adopted for such storage should be
regulated and supervised.
Further, the shops, which sell bread and milk, should be
registered for the sale of milk, because in this case milk is distinctly
one of the main items in the food.
In one borough, the registration, for the sale of milk, of all
public-houses selling rum and milk was then being considered
by the Public Health Committee.
In nearly all the boroughs restaurants were entered on the
register of workshops and workplaces and cleanliness of working
and utensils secured under the Factory and Workshop Act, and
the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
There are in Finsbury 237 restaurants.
Of the whole number 49 sold milk, and of these 34 were
registered in the usual way for such sale.
Notices were served on the remaining fifteen and registration
effected, or the sale of milk given up.
One hundred and twenty-seven sell "Tea and Milk," or one
or other of the commodities, Nos. 2 to 5, given in detail above.
In respect of these latter restaurants, further action by the
Public Health Committee is in abeyance, pending a judicial
decision in the case raised for appeal.
The restaurants were inspected on 293 occasions: seventy-seven
notices were served for various sanitary defects.
Milk Samples and Analyses.— The total number of milk
samples taken was 373, of which 43, or 11.5 per cent., were found
to be adulterated on the standard adopted by the Board of Agriculture—that
is not less than 8.5 per cent, of non-fatty solids and
not less than 3.0 per cent. of fat.
The percentage of adulterated samples is still slowly increasing
and is in all probability to be attributed to the increased prevalence
of milk "toning" adopted by large distributing companies.