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or pasteurising establishments in the Borough. The following Table
No. 23 shows the numbers of licences granted for the sale of milk under
special designations during the past two years.

No samples of graded or other milk were submitted for bacteriological
examination during the year.
Further reference to milk is made in the Public Analyst's Report
for the year and details of magisterial proceedings taken in cases of
adulterated milk will be found in the sub-section dealing with the Food
and Drugs (Adulteration) Act.
Ice-Cream Vendors.—At the end of the year, 27 premises were
shown in the Register as places where ice-cream is prepared or sold.
There were 37 inspections of these premises as compared with 30 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
of ice-cream must notify the occurrence of infectious disease among
their employees or persons living on their premises. The Act also
provides that every itinerant vendor shall exhibit on his barrow the
name and 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
apparent 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