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premises visited the tins were found to be stored near the water closet
in a covered yard leading from the sleeping room. It seems to be a
practice with ice cream vendors to collect ice from the docks, canals,
and ditches for freezing purposes ; but it has transpired that ice
forms an ingredient of what is known as " water ice," which is also
sold in the streets. In two of the premises large quantities of ice
were found to be stored in cellars : the ice in one of these cellars I
visited had been taken from the Millwall Docks; it was very dirty,
and looked like pieces of coal, and it occurred to me that should any
of it—which was very likely—be mixed with the ice cream that
there would be pollution at once. The Vestry of Islington, in face
of the report of Dr. Klein, desired the co-operation of all other Sanitary
Authorities in memorialising the Local Government Board to introduce
legislation which would empower local authorities to register the
vendors of ice creams, and to make bye-laws for regulating the conditions
under which ices are made and sold. From the Lancet,
February 2nd, it appeared that the Local Government Board was
about to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the advisability
of instituting legislative action, and had written to certain Metropolitan
Sanitary Authorities.
REMOVAL OF OFFENSIVE REFUSE AND NUISANCE FROM
FISH SHOPS IN CHANNELS OF ROADWAYS.
On the 26th September I reported to the Sanitary Committee that
on the 2nd and 16th September offensive material (bones) was being removed
in a van within prohibited hours. The bye-laws of the London
Connty Council (which it is the duty of every sanitary authority to
enforce) state that "Every person . . . fœcal or offensive or
noxious matter or liquid, whether such matter or liquid shall be in
course of removal or carriage from within or without or through
London, shall not remove or carry such matter or liquid in or through
London, except between the hours of 4 o'clock and 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, during the months of March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, and October—The penalty for offending