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Ice Cream. At the end of the year 185 premises were shown in the Register of places
within the Borough where ice cream is prepared or sold. Thirty-three places have been added to
the Register and 19 have been removed during the year, the net result being that the number of
premises upon which ice cream is made has been increased by 14. The trade is regulated under
the London County Council (General Powers Act, 1902, which makes it 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 are also required to notify the occurrence of infectious disease amongst their employes, or
amongst persons living on their premises. The Act further 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. 556 visits to ice cream premises have been made by the inspectors during the year, and
18 notices have been served in respect of defects found.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED.
Places in the Borough where food is prepared or sold are entered in a Register under the date
on which they were finally inspected and found to comply with the requirements of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908. The following Table shows the number of such
premises on the Register at the end of the years 1912 and 1913, together with the number added
to or removed from the Register during the twelve months to which the report relates:—
Provision
Dealers.
Restaurants.
Butchers.
Fried Fish
Fishmongers.
Greengrocers.
Others.
Total.
On Register
Dec. 30th, 1912
242 162 115 43 47 62 10 681
No. added
14 9 3 0 2 10 1 39
Removed
4312310 14
On Register
Dec. 31st, 1913
252 168 117 41 46 71 11 706

Bakehouses. — There are 94 bakehouses in the Borough, and of this number 73 are underground.
As the result of 511 inspections in the year 57 notices were served, the work required in
36 cases being the cleansing of walls and ceilings.
Slaughter Houses. — The ten slaughter houses in the Borough were again licensed in
October by the London County Council. They are kept in a cleanly state, and from a structural
point of view are not open to objection. Two houses are not used on more than two or three
occasions during the year. In the remaining eight houses sheep are killed from time to time, but
cattle are rarely slaughtered within the Borough. In the first half of the year a considerable number
of pigs were killed in the slaughter house in the Walmer Road. The slaughter house inspections
for the year numbered 275.