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In respect of the milk supplied in 1923 there were four prosecutions.
To the vendors of the remaining 5 adulterated samples,
cautionary letters were sent. In each of these latter cases the
milk was only slightly deficient in the non-fatty solids.
The Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923.—One
application under the order was received during 1923 for a dealers
licence to use the designation "Certified." The application
was granted.
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations. 1912.—
Action taken in Finsbury during 1923 under the above-mentioned
regulations is shown by the following tabic:—
Nature of
Sample
No. of
samples
examined
No. of samples
containing above
prescribed
limit of
preservative
Cream
0
0
Milk
257
0
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops and workplaces on the register
at the end of 1923 was 2,221, compared with 2,146 at the end
of 1922. During the year under review, 140 entries were removed
from the register owing to the closing of premises, the conversion
of workshops into factories by the introduction of some form of
mechanical power, or to the removal of the occupiers to other
places of business.
The number of workshops and workplaces newly registered
was 215. The factories on the register at the end of 1923 numbered
1,618, compared with 1,491 at the end of 1922.
The list included 10 tenement factories, in which there were
separate occupiers carrying on different trades or processes and
supplied with mechanical power by the owners of the premises.