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cream. These are taken and dipped into bowls of liquid chocolate, are
allowed to dry, so giving us chocolate creams. These are hand-made
creams. The machine-made creams are also made from cacao butter,
sweetened and flavoured. These pass along a moving belt through a
machine where they are sprayed with chocolate. The surplus chocolate
is removed by an air spray. These chocolates then pass through long
boxes where they dry and are ready for packing.
Marzipans. These are also made from cacao butter, coloured,
sweetened, flavoured and moulded into fancy shapes.
Sweets. Boiled sweets are made by melting sugar in large steamheated
coppers; flavouring and other ingredients are added and the
mass is rolled and cut into various shapes. Medicated sweets, such as
Brompton cough lozenges, are also made.
Tea is imported in bulk from Ceylon, India, China, etc. The cases
are opened, poured into hoppers, where the tea is sifted and passed over
a moving belt close beneath the poles of a magnet, which extracts all
metallic impurities in the tea. In the case of large leaves, these are
passed through a chopping machine which reduces them to whatever
size is needed. The teas are then mixed and blended, then conveyed
to the gallery of the tea-packing room, empted into hoppers supplying
different machines. The process of packing is done in a machine,
which includes making the bag, filling it, enclosing and labelling, the
tea not being touched by human hand.
There is no complaint to make regarding this factory.
Slaughterhouses (1).
This is one of the two slaughterhouses in the Borough. The licence
is renewed annually by the London County Council subject to a
satisfactory report being submitted by us. The place is well lighted,
ventilated and drained. It has a cement floor and the walls are
rendered impervious up to a height of 6 feet. The animals destined
for slaughter are brought up from Kent and Sussex a day prior to
slaughter. They are kept in roomy lairs with a good supply of clean
water and straw. Food is not given for about 8 hours before slaughter.
The animals received here are mostly sheep and oxen. The lairs
communicate directly with the slaughterhouse, but when an animal