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unsound and diseased food.
Dairies and Milkshops.—At the end of 1910 there were 114 names of milk vendors on the
Register. Seven new milk vendors were added, 6 old businesses changed hands, and 1 removed.
The Register contained 120 effective entries at the close of the year. The businesses carried on
in combination with the sale of milk by the vendors now on the Register are given below—
Dairies: milk, butter, and eggs only 87 (84)
,, wholesale 4 (4)
Grocers' shops 1 (1)
General shops 12 (9)
Sweet-stuff, Confectionery 2 (2)
Provisions 1 (1)
Refreshments 9 (9)
Bakers' shops 4 (4)
Two cases of diphtheria occurred at milkshop premises, and 10 cases of scarlet fever and
3 of diphtheria in the families of milk carriers. Suitable precautions were taken in each case,
and there was no conveyance of infection therefrom by the milk.
Ice Cream Making.
For the purpose of duly enforcing the provisions of Part VIII. of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, a special Register of all makers and vendors of this
commodity is kept. At the end of 1910 there were 116 names on the Register, 10 were
removed during the past year, and 2 added, leaving 108 on the Register at the close of the year.
The businesses with which the ice cream trade is combined are indicated below—
Sweet shops 54 Newspapers and Tobacco 3
Bakers 22 Confectioners 5
Milk 3 Cook 1
Restaurants 12 General 8
In addition to 4 barrow-men residing in the Borough, 10 others have regular pitches in the
Borough, the proprietors residing in—
Kensington 5 Marylebone 3 Willesden 2
UNSOUND AND DISEASED FOOD.
The appended statement, including 7,639 lbs. of foodstuffs destroyed, is additional to the
amount dealt with in the slaughterhouses.
Meat (Butchers' shops):—
Pieces of beef (decomposed), mutton (pleurisy), pork (abscess).
Bullocks'liver and lungs, pigs'lungs Parasitic.
Fish.:— Haddocks, 336 lbs. Kippers, 370 lbs. Mackerel, 56 lbs. Decomposed
Hake, 140 „ Soles, 112 ,, Skate, 70 ,,
Vegetables and Fruit:—Apples 132 lbs. Onions 212 lbs.
Tomatoes 188 „ Oranges 8 „
Strawberries 15 ,,
Summary.
Meat 570 lbs. Per G.W.R. Co.—
Fish 1,084 „ Pickled Herrings 308 lbs.
Vegetables 555 ,, Plums 2,240 ,,
Peas 1,008 „
2,209 „ Asparagus 1,232 „
Fowls 152 „
Ducks 112 „
Pigs' heads 280 „
Venison 56 „
Tripe 42 „
Grand Total 7,639 lbs.