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Borough Surveyor has arranged for these streets to be sufficiently watered before
the scavenging to prevent dust arising.
Street Trading,
I received information from the Borough Engineer respecting 103 applications
from street traders for annual licences to sell various articles of food as
follows: —
Coffee stalls 6
Confectionery and drinks 15
Fish—wet and dry, including shell fish 8
Fruit and vegetables 48
Groceries 4
Ice cream or chestnuts 15
Meat 3
Poultry, eggs and provisions 4
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All the storage places situated in the Borough were inspected.
Where the storage place is outside the Borough information as to suitability is
obtained from the Medical Officer of Health of the district concerned. In like
manner information respecting storage places in Holborn used by stallholders
trading in other areas is sent to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in
which the licence is applied for.
Ice Cream.
Provision was included in the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1928, for the registration with the sanitary authority of premises proposed to be
used for the manufacture, storage or sale of ice cream. The London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, amends the registration requirement so that
the sanitary authority may now refuse to register, or may remove from the register,
any premises that are unsuitable. These provisions do not apply to any premises
used as a club, hotel or restaurant. It is to be regretted that opportunity was not
taken in connection with the promotion of this legislation to include a definition
of ice cream.
At the end of the year the following premises were on the register: —
Manufacture only 1
Manufacture and storage 1
Manufacture and sale 1
Manufacture, storage and sale 18
Storage and sale 2
Sale only 19
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