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Bermondsey 1923

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1923

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Milk ( Special Designations) Order, 1923.
Dealer's Licences granted during 1923 to:—
Mr. Watkin Davies, of 157, St. James' Road, S.E.16.
Mr. Jenkin Morgan Evans, of 37, Plough Road, S.E.16.
to sell "Certified" Milk.
Supplementary Licenses granted during 1923 to:—
Messrs. Higgs & Sons, Ltd., of 2-6, Canterbury Road,
S.W.9, to sell in this Borough "Certified" Milk from their
premises at: —
1/3, New Street, Kennington.
62, Borough High Street.
553, Old Kent Road.
22, Credon Road.
Slaughterhouses.
There are now no slaughterhouses in the Borough.
Ice Cream Premises.
There were 131 premises where ice cream is manufactured on
the Register at the end of 1922. 20 were added and 25 removed
during the year under report, making a total of 126; 109 inspections
were made.
Street Markets.
The following report was made to the Public Health Committee
on the 30th January, 1923, and adopted by the Council: —
"My attention has been drawn by one of the Inspectors
who has been examining the street markets recently, to the
difficulty stallholders have of getting rid of unsound food,
especially fruit and vegetables, which accumulate as a result
of sorting their purchases from Covent Garden. The rejected
food is generally stacked in odd boxes which are sometimes
placed underneath the stalls, and sometimes on the stalls
close to the sound articles. He also noticed in many cases,
that these boxes of waste materials did not seem to increase