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No samples of graded or other milk were submitted for bacteriological
examination during the year.
There were 96 inspections of dairies and milkshops made in the Borough.
Notices were served requiring remedy of defects found on one of the
Premises visited. There are no cowsheds in the district.
Further reference to milk is made in the Public Analyst's Report
for the year and details of magisterial proceedings taken in cases of
a dulterated milk will be found in the sub-section dealing with the Food
a nd Drugs Acts.
Ice-Cream Vendors. —At the end of the year, 26 premises were
shown in the Register as places where ice-cream is prepared or sold.
There were 30 inspections of these premises as compared with 31 in the
Previous year. This trade is mainly regulated under the L.C.C. (General
Powers) Act, 1902. It is an offence to store ice-cream in a sleeping room
or in any shed or room in which there is an inlet to a drain. Vendors
ice-cream must notify the occurrence of infectious disease among
their employees or persons living on their premises. The Act also pro-
V ides that every itinerant vendor shall exhibit on his barrow the name
an d address of the person from whom the ice-cream has been obtained.
The foregoing legislative provisions enable a Sanitary Authority to
exercise adequate control where the vendors and premises are known,
but, inasmuch as ice-cream may be made under insanitary conditions
on premises other than those where it is stored, it had long become
a pparent that some system of compulsory registration was essential,
applicable to all premises where the commodity is manufactured or
stored or sold, and also to the itinerant vendors. Fortunately, this
difficulty has now been largely met by the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1928. Section 29 of this Act provides that
Premises used for the manufacture, sale or storage of ice cream or other
similar commodity shall be registered by the owner or occupier thereof