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defined daily round, chiefly in the streets of the City of Londonothers
have irregular pitches. They move far afield, and may
be in Hampstead one day and in Clapham the next. The use of
the small conical glasses, which are lipped, tongued, licked ami
gloated over by children, is most undesirable. For cleaning they
are dipped momentarily into dirty water, which contains the
accumulated mucus and mouth secretions of all previous buyers,
and which is rarely renewed during the day. They are bathed in
the dregs and sousings of prior users : they are swilled in diluted
sputum.
They are swabbed perfunctorily with a small, wet, offensive
duster, and upended on a wet or soiled barrow top. The equipment
of dusters is very scanty—one, or at most two, are used for
the hundreds of occasions on which they are needed during the
round. It seems to be almost impossible to make these itinerant
ice cream and "hokey pokey" men adopt the most elementary
rules which make for clean manufacture, clean conditions of sale,
and clean conditions of presentation.
Restaurants.—There are 228 restaurants in the borough.
They are regularly inspected. In 1913 the number of notices
served was 46, the number of inspections 228. These premises
are not included in the sum total of workplaces given on another
page.
Butter Manufacturers and Wholesale Margarine
Dealers.-At the end of 1913 the following names and addresses
were on the register :—
Wholesale Margarine Dealers.—
W. Baker & Co., 1, Paul Street.
De Graafe & Baker, 43 and 45, St. John Street.
Harris Bros., 44 and 46, St. John Street.
Harvey & Son, 29, Cowcross Street.
Hermann Husburg, 28, Cowcross Street.
Lidstone & Holme, 204 & 206, Old Street.