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custom of the Department to undertake the removal
to the existing mortuary free of charge to the poorer
classes, the funeral starting from the mortuary, and
the body not being allowed to enter the house after its
first removal.
Trade Supervision.—All the cowsheds, slaughterhouses,
and bake-houses in the Parish have been
systematically inspected at the end of each half year
and at such other times as appeared necessary. As
complete a list (see Appendix A, page 137), as
possible of the milk vendors in the Parish has
been compiled and verified during the year. All
are supposed to be registered with the London
County Council, but several were found to be unregistered,
and many persons whose names appeared on the
Council's lists were found to have gone out of the
business from various causes. The premises of these
vendors will be systematically inspected, and a register
compiled during the current year.
One cow-house has been abandoned during the year,
and now there are but two in the Parish. There appears
to be but very little to be gained by keeping cows in
London, and, having regard to the well known
prevalence of tuberculosis among cows kept in confinement,
there seems to be good reason to discourage the
practice. Properly regulated farms in the country,
where the cows are kept in the fields, and frequently
tested for tuberculosis, where the milk is taken with
every precaution against pollution, and whence rapid