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Milkshops and Dairies.—22 applications for registration under the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders, in respect of milkshops were considered
during 1919. They were all acceded to.
The figures in regard to the registration of milkshops are set out below : —
No. of purveyors of milk at retail milkshops on register at end
of 1918 214
Deduct No. of purveyors removed from register during 1919 23
Add No. of purveyors added to register by resolution of Council
during 1919 22
No. of purveyors of milk at retail milkshops on register at end
of 1919 213
At the end of 1919 there were on the register in addition to these 213
retail milkshops and 4 cowsheds (which arc attached to retail milkshops
included in the 213), 2 persons in respect of premises where only a wholesale
milk trade is done, and 3 itinerant vendors without milkshops.
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 & 1917.
The following is a report of the work done under the regulations during
the year ended the 27th December, 1919 : —
384 samples of milk were taken and analysed, and in no case were preservatives
reported to be found.
N'j other contraventions of the regulations were discovered.
Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1918.
During 1919 milk was supplied under the above-mentioned Order to 213
new families, the milk being granted free in 207 cases and at half price in
6 cases. The supply was also continued in a few cases commenced in 1918.
The total cost to the Council of the milk supplied during the year was
£285 0s. 5d.
(b) OTHER FOODS.
The Food Inspectors have kept under regular inspection food exposed or
deposited for sale in slaughter-houses, shops (especially butchers', cooked meat,
and fishmongers' shops), stalls, and market places.
No seizures of unsound food were made during 1919.
On 106 occasions during the year unsound food has been surrendered by
the owners to the Food Inspectors and destroyed as trade refuse.
The work of the Food Inspectors is shown in detail in table No. 8, on pages
110 and 111.
Slaughter-Houses.
The greater part of the English-killed meat sold in St. Pancras is killed
outside of the Borough. There were 9 licensed slaughter-houses (private) in