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The latter Conference resolved (1) the extension of the period from one
month to three months; (2) the prohibition of the employment of women
advanced in pregnancy unless medically certified as fit for work.
It appeared to the Secretary of State that a simultaneous and systematic
inquiry into the subject, on uniform lines, by the Medical Officers of Health of a
number of representative industrial centres would yield the best results.
The Holborn Borough Council approved of my co-operation and my attendance
at a conference of representatives of the Home Office and Medical Officers of
Health, held at the Home Office on the 6th November, 1907, at which the details
of the form which the inquiry should take were agreed to.
Details were being obtained during the year and will be completed by the
end of the year 1909.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eating-houses
of all sorts, slaughter-houses, tripe, offal and other meat shops, fried fish, eel and
other fish shops, premises where ice cream is made, and other places where food is
prepared for sale, excluding bakehouses which are given on previous page.
The number of these places on the register at the end of 1908 was 388;
2,117 inspections were made, and 78 notices were served during the year for
sanitary defects found.
In addition to the above inspections of places where food is prepared for sale,
here were also 740 inspections of market streets, each of which includes a number
of stalls at which meat, fish, fruit and vegetables are sold. These streets are also
regularly inspected on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.
There is now only one slaughter-house in the Borough, viz., No. 29, Red Lion
Street, which, in addition to my inspections, was inspected on 11 occasions during
the year, and one notice was served for sanitary defects found.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
The number of registered dairies and milkshops in the Borough at the end of
the year was 178, of which 76 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 102 in the
Holborn District.
During the year 15 dairies and milk shops were newly registered, 7 belonging
to St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 8 to the Holborn District. On application for
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