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The trade is mainly 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 among their employees or 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. Two hundred and twenty-five visits to ice cream
premises have been made by the inspectors during the year.
The powers under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1902 and 1908, enable the Council to exercise efficient control where the
vendors and premises are known, but, inasmuch as ice cream may be made under unsatisfactory
conditions on premises other than those where it is stored, a system of compulsory registration of
premises where the commodity is manufactured, stored or sold and of itinerant vendors of ice cream,
should be introduced.
In addition, byelaws are needed to secure the sale of ice cream from street barrows being
conducted under clean conditions.
Bakehouses.—There are 93 bakehouses in the Borough, and of this number 69 are underground.
As a result of 308 inspections, which were made during the year, 14 notices were served
for the cleansing of walls and ceilings.
Slaughter Houses.—The six 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. During the year a considerable number of pigs were killed in the.
slaughter house in Walmer Road, and the license was renewed by the London County Council
in October on 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 284.
Other Places Where Food is Prepared.—In addition to the above-mentioned food
premises, places in the Borough where food is prepared for or exposed for sale are entered in a
Register under the date on which they were finally inspected and found to comply with the
requirements of the County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908. The following Table shows the
number of such premises on the Register at the end of the years 1921 and 1922, 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, 1921 288 178 111 39 55 103 16 790
No. added 7 10 1 1 0 0 1 20
Removed 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
On Register
Dec. 31st, 1922 295 188 112 40 55 102 17 809

Food Sold from Street Stalls.—Street trading is carried on in various parts of the Borough,
out particularly in Portobello Road, and the foodstuffs sold from the street stalls are inspected