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are removed, the Council should take proceedings
against the owners. I give this advice with some
hesitation, as up to now we have proceeded in a friendly
and co-operative manner with the butchers. At the
same time, there are obdurate shops which are keeping
back the general advance in food hygiene and these
must, unfortunately, be dealt with.
Food-preparing places.—The usual attention was
devoted during the year to all places where food is
prepared, particularly to the various food kitchens,
restaurants and eating houses. These places are as a
rule systematically visited by the woman sanitary
inspector, Mrs. Davies, and during 1925 she made 325
visits as compared with 415 during 1924. In connection
with these kitchens, 16 notices to improve the premises
were served. We have a record of 92 such kitchens in
the Borough, but as there is no obligation on such
premises to register with the Public Health Department,
we have to depend on the observation of the inspectors
to keep the department informed of the presence of
these kitchens.
During 1925, the usual arrangements have been
continued whereby the sanitary inspectors, acting on a
rota of two per week, inspect all the food barrows,
market stalls and food shops in North End Road and
other special localities on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Slaughterhouses. There are two licensed slaughterhouses
in the Borough:—
No. 611, Fulham Road, and
No. 640, King's Road.
61 visits of inspection have been made to these
slaughterhouses during the year and the conditions
have been found satisfactory on every occasion.
Milk.—The number of adulterated samples of milk
was 1 per cent, in 1925, compared with 1.6 per cent,
in 1924 and 4.5 per cent, in 1923. It is extremely
rare nowadays to find an adulterated sample of milk.
Milk sellers at last seem to have come to the conclusion
that tampering with milk does not pay, and much of
this success must be ascribed to the constant watchfulness
which Inspector Jones has given in dealing
with the milk sellers in the Borough.