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Dairies and Milkshops.—The number of persons registered
during the year as purveyors of milk was 23. Of these 4 were
new applications, 19 were on the transfer of the business. The
number left on the register was 257, and includes 184 owners of
milkshops as distinguished from dairies and restaurants, selling
milk in driblets, for a farthing or a halfpenny at a time, in this
way disposing of three or four quarts a day. These milkshops,
which are also small general or grocery shops, were inspected on
189 occasions, and 22 notices were served for various sanitary
defects. The procedure, the limitations, and conditions precedent
to registration have been fully described in previous reports.
Each applicant fills in a form dealing with the following
matters:—
1. Name and private address of the applicant.
2. The address of the milk shop.
3. The names and addresses of the wholesale firms who supply
the applicant with milk.
4. The place of storage for the milk, the kind of vessel used,
and the kind of cover.
5. Any other trade conducted on the premises.
6. A list of any offensive materials sold or stored on the
premises.
7. The average amount of milk sold or to be sold per day.
Each applicant is supplied with printed copies of the regulations
made by the London County Council as to Dairies, Cowsheds and
Milkshops; the Milk and Sale of Eood Clauses, Sections 5, and 8
of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908; and
Extracts from the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders of
1885, 1886, and 1899 referring to the milk from diseased cows.
It is found that most of the small shops, in addition to selling milk
also sell commodities which are liable to contaminate the milk or
are relatively offensive, such as oil, matches, soap, bath brick,
coal, coke, candles, pickles, fish, furniture polish, vinegar, firewood,
or boot blacking. A few shops sell paraffin. It is, however,
not allowed to be sold from the same counter or from the
same room as that from which the milk is sold. It must not be
sold from any plaoe in or near that in which the milk is stored.