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Much has been done during the past year to effect improvement
in this respect.
It is hoped that, as a result of the recommendations of the
Departmental Committee on Meat Inspection, additional powers
will soon be given to sanitary authorities for dealing with the
storage and sale of all food-stuffs, intended for human consumption.
The Sanitary Inspectors state that the food-stuffs sold by
street traders and others in the Borough are stored in many
cases in dwelling-houses in rooms specially set apart for this
purpose, and also in sheds in the yards of dwelling-houses.
These may be looked upon more or less as suitable places of
storage. However, fruit and vegetables have occasionally been
found in a few cases in places used as common stabling for a
pony. And sometimes vegetables have been found thrown loose
in the yards and washhouses of dwelling-houses. The appropriate
administrative action has been taken in such cases.
Generally speaking, on the whole the storage places have
been found to be clean. If registration were provided, as recommended
by the Departmental Committee appointed by the Minister
of Health in June, 1920, in its report of April, 1921 (as applied
to butchers' meat for the food of man) and were extended so
as to include all food-stuffs, the control of the premises or
places used for the storage of fruit and vegetables from a sanitary
point of view would be comparatively easy.
MILK SHOPS.
At the end of 1923 there were on the register 151 milk
shops. These were inspected on 177 occasions. 45 notices were
served for the abatement of various nuisances. There were no
prosecutions.