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DAIRIES, MILKSHOPS AND MILK
STORES.
72 new milkshops and milk stores have been inspected and
reported upon, during 1910, with a view to registration,
and all existing ones have been under inspection from time
to time.
During 1910, a special inspection has also been made of
the whole of the known dairies, milkshops and milk stores
situated within the Borough with a view to (a) tabulating
the exact conditions under which milk is stored and sold
on the premises; and (b) classifying them as (1) suitable,
and (2) unsuitable, and, in connection with the latter, so as to
take such action as may be necessary in removing them
from the Register in accordance with the powers conferred
upon the Council under section 5 of the London County
County (General Powers) Act, 1908.
As a result of the inspection, it is found that a large
number of general shops keep, for the convenience of their
customers, small quantities of milk (varying daily from a
pint to a gallon), sold from pans or cans standing on the
counters, in shops that are crowded up with all sorts of
other articles on sale, some of which are : (a) strong smelling.
e.g., kerosene or paraffin oil, fresh meat or fish, bacon
and ham, cheese, etc., or (b) give off dust or dirt, e.g., coal,
firewood, old clothes, etc. Under these conditions, the milk
standing on the counter in a par, or can, generally uncovered,
is liable, more or less, to contamination The registration
of all cowkeepers, dairymen and purveyors of
milk by the Lambeth Borough Council throughout the
Borough (and the same applies to other Metropolitan Districts')
is compulsory by Section 6 of the Dairies, Cowsheds
and Milkshops Order, 1885, as amended by the London
Government Act, 1899 (Sections 5 and 6). Further,
the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908,