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London County Council (General Towers) Act, 1909 (Storage of Food
(Tenements).
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1927 (Regulation of
Street Trading).
Shell Fish Regulations, 1915.
Soft Fruit (Sales) Order, 1918.
Sale of Food Order, 1921 (Marking Imported Meat).
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
World's Dairy Congress, 1928, for the Consideration of all
Problems connected with the Production and Distribution of
Milk and Milk Products.
Arrangements are being made for the forthcoming World's Dairy
Congress to be held in this country next year, from 26th June to 11th
July, 1928.
The Congress is being organised with the fullest support and encouragement
from the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, who are
represented on the Committees in charge of the arrangements. It is
the eighth Congress of its kind, but the first to be held in this country.
It is being arranged in conjunction with the International Dairy Federation
and with the concurrence of the International Institute of Agriculture,
Rome. His Majesty the King has graciously consented to act as Patron,
and the Ministers of Agriculture and Health have agreed to become
Presidents. The Chairman of the Organising Committee is the Right
Hon. the Lord Kenyon, K.C.V.O.
The main object of the Congress is to bring about a meeting between
all who are concerned with milk questions, both in this country and in
others, with a view to further progress being made in the direction of
placing an abundant supply of clean milk and of milk products within
the reach of the consuming public.
The Medical Officer of Health has been appointed the Council's delegate
to this Congress.
The Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
Registration of Dairymen, etc.—At the end of the year the register
contained the names of 408 persons who were engaged in the selling
of milk, either in or from shops, and including those itinerant vendors
who have neither shops nor stores, but sell milk from street barrows.
Eighteen new applications to be registered during the year were
received. Of those, seven concerned the transfer of business to another
proprietor, while the premises continued to be used for the same