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now registered. During the year 272 visits of inspection have
been paid to these premises; notices were served upon the
occupiers in 12 cases, 8 of which were for dirty premises
generally, in 5 cases for dirty milk vessels and utensils, and in
3 instances for general insanitary conditions.
Under the powers conferred by the London County Council
(General) Powers Act, 1908, Section 5, with respect to the
registration of premises unsuitable for the sale of milk, such
registration has been refused on the grounds of the unsuitability
of the premises in 17 cases.
Ice Cream Premises. There were 115 premises known at
the commencement of the year where the manufacture of thiscommodity
was carried on, 13 have been added during the year
and 10 taken off, leaving atotalof 118 premises. These premiseswere
inspected on 157 occasions, and improvements, either by
way of cleansing of the premises in 13 cases, or the remedying of
sanitary defects in 8 cases, and 3 suitable ash receptacles required.
In the course of our inspections of the itinerant vendors of
ice cream and such commodities particularly at holiday times on
the open spaces in the district, we have met with the following
anomaly which certainly seems as if it might easily be remedied :—
Section 43 of the London County Council (General) Powers
Act, 1902, requires every itinerant vendor of such commoditiesto
exhibit in a legible manner on a conspicuous part of his barrow
his name and address. Some of these itinerant vendors wheel
their ice cream barrows on to the Heath, such barrow not having
any name and address displayed thereon as required by this
section, but on arriving on the Heath, doubtless for the purpose