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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.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.—-Meat inspection is carried
out by the Sanitary Inspectors. Arrangements have been made whereby
adequate notice of the time of slaughter is obtained. During the year
85 sheep and 6 pigs were inspected at the time of slaughter. No
application for the marking of meat under the Regulations has been
received.
Instructions under the Regulations have been formulated to deal
with stalls, shops, stores and vehicles. These have been approved
by the Council, and circulated amongst traders concerned. No meat
stalls exist in the Borough at the present time.
Slaughterhouses.—There are now two private slaughterhouses
in the Borough and 17 inspections of these premises were made during
1932. In compliance with the byelaws prescribing humane slaughtering,
approved methods of slaughter are employed in each of the premises.
There is no public abattoir in the Borough.
Table No. 32 (page 51) shows, in the form required by the Ministry of
Health, the number of private slaughterhouses in use in the Borough
on the dates indicated.
Bakehouses.—There are 26 bakehouses in the Borough, and 26
inspections of these premises were made during the year. Five notices
were served for the cleansing of walls and ceilings.
Ice Cream Vendors.—At the end of the year, 30 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 56 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 similar