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Market Streets.
There were 933 inspections of market streets, each of which includes a number of
stalls at which meat, fish, fruit and vegetables are sold. These streets are regularly
inspected daily and 011 Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings.
The daily inspection of these market streets helps to secure the maintenance
b\ the regular stallholders of good, sound food only, and, in addition, has the effect
of keeping away from these markets casual and unsatisfactory hawkers, who
generally avoid markets subject to regular and strict supervision.
In order to minimise as far as practicable any contamination of the food
exposed for sale in market streets from dust arising during street cleansing, the
Borough Surveyor has arranged for these streets to be sufficiently watered before
the scavenging to prevent dust arising.
Street Trading.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1927, by l'art VI, conferred
powers on Local Authorities in Loudon to issue licences to street traders and made
it unlawful for any person to sell or expose, or offer for sale, any article or thing
from or upon any barrow, cart, stall, or other receptacle occupying a stationary
position at a place in the carriage way or footway of any street in any Metropolitan
Borough, without such licence. The Act also provided for the making of by-laws
by the Borougn Council relative to various matters cognate to such street trading,
including the storage of and the sanitary supervision (while at the place of intended
sale or exposure or offering for sale) of articles of food intended to be sold or exposed
or offered for sale under the authority of the licence. By-laws made by the Holborn
Council in pursuance of these powers were approved by the Home Secretary and
came into operation in the early part of 1928. The enforcement of the by-laws,
so far as they deal with the sanitary supervision of tlif articles exposed for sale,
is being undertaken by the Public Health Department.
T received information from the Borough Surveyor respecting 109 applications
from street traders for licences to sell various articles of food as follows:—
Coffee stalls 6
Confectionery 10
Eels and shell fish 5
Fish—wet and dry 5
Fruit 29
Fruit and vegetables 8
Groceries 3
Ice cream 16
Lemons 2
Meat 5
Pies 2
Poultry, eggs and provisions 6
Soda and milk 1
Vegetables 11
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