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Legal proceedings were instituted by the Council in
6 cases. Details will be found on page 74.
Milk sellers—
Number on Register 31st December, 1923 90.
Number who discontinued sale of milk during
year, or business transferred 9.
Number of licences issued during 1924 24.
Number on Register 31st December, 1924 105.
Costers and Food Stalls.—Constant watchfulness has
again been required during the year in order to deal
with the many unsatisfactory places where costers have
been found to keep food, especially fruit, prior to its
sale on their barrows or stalls. In my report for 1923
I stated that a Bill had been presented to Parliament
requiring the registration of costers, market stalls and
food storage places. This Bill unfortunately appears
to have vanished and at present there is no talk of a
similar Bill. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly badly
required.
Cream (Milk and Cream Regulations, 1912 and 1917).
—Fourteen samples of cream and eighteen samples of
preserved cream were purchased for analysis.
The following particulars of proceedings taken in
1924 under the above regulations, made in pursuance
of the Public Health (Regulation of Food) Act, 1907,
are given in the form suggested by the late Local
Government Board in their circular letter of October
27th, 1913