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storage vessels have been closely inspected as to cleanliness and have,
with few exceptions, been kept in a good condition and the milkpans
have been kept covered over to keep out dust, etc.
The licence for the slaughterhouse, viz., 57-9, Chrisp Street, has
been stopped (on the evidence jointly of the Inspector to the London
County Council and your Inspector) owing to repeated cautions as to the
dirty state of the premises and contravention of bye-laws one way and
another. The others have been kept in a proper manner.
All changes of milkshop tenants (and these are frequent) have been
noted and the registers altered accordingly and brought up to date.
The number of these premises now on the list is as follows :—
Milkshops 79
Cowshed 1
Slaughterhouses 2
Canal Boats Acts.
During the year 12 canal boats have been visited. There does not
seem to have been the traffic in any portion of canal during the past
twelve months as in former years. Everything was found in good order.
Smoke Nuisances.
All complaints from the London County Council have been dealt with
and also complaints from my own observations. It was not necessary to
take legal proceedings except in one case, a firm in Barchester Street.
This firm have had several cautions and were constantly making
a nuisance on Sunday mornings by burning felt refuse, etc. I watched
for three Sundays and found it was sheer neglect.
The firm was fined the full penalty of £5 and 23s. costs.
Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899.
50 samples of various kinds have been purchased for analysis by the
Public Analyst during the year, 3 of which proved to be adulterated badly.
By direction of the Committee, legal proceedings were instituted in
each case. In some of the others different preservatives were found, and in
one viz.: the Whisky there was an excess of water, and a letter of caution
was sent to vendor by order of the Committee. Also in one sample
of Milk a deficiency of fat to extent of 3 per cent. was discovered and