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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. 291 visits to ice cream premises have been made by the inspectors during the year.
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 1913 and 1914, 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. 31st, 1913 252 168 117 44 40 71 11 709
No added 4 8 2 0 4 1 3 22
Removed 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 6
On Register
Dec. 31st, 1914 254 175 118 43 50 71 14 725

Bakehouses. — There are 91 bakehouses in the Borough, and of this number 69 are underground.
As a result of 470 inspections in the year 51 notices were served, the work required in
30 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. During the year a considerable number of pigs were killed
in the slaughter house in the Walmer Road, and the license was renewed by the London County
Council in October on the condition that the premises be not used for the purpose of slaughtering
on more than 20 Sundays in the year, that slaughtering on Sundays be carried out in the forenoon
only, that the licensee do inform the Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington on the previous
day when he intends to slaughter animals on a Sunday, and that on week-days cattle be slaughtered
only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the months of May, June, July, August and
September, and between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. during the remainder of the year. The
slaughter house inspections for the year numbered 233.