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In addition to the above, there were also on the register at the end of 1925 one person
in respect of premises where a wholesale milk trade only is done, and 12 itinerant vendors
without retail milkshops. The two cowsheds abovo mentioned also have retail milkshops
attached to them, and these are included in the total of 213.

With reference to the registration of purveyors of milk, it has always been the policy
of the St. Pancras Borough Council to require registration, whether tho milk was sold in
sealed bottles or otherwise. In some boroughs this practice has not been followed, and
sterilised milk in sealed (paper seal) stoppered bottles is allowed to be sold in any shop without
registration. In addition to this, certain wholesale distributors of sterilised bottled milk
have informed the proprietors of general shops that this milk can be sold by them without it
being necessary to register as purveyors of milk. Several prosecutions have taken place with
reference to this in various parts of the country, and Magistrates have differed in their
decisions. On December 17th, 1925, proceedings were taken by the St. Pancras Borough
Council against the proprietor of a general shop for selling sterilised milk in bottles without
being registered. The case was dismissed with costs against the Council. The report of the
Public Health Committee on this case is given below, as it clearly states the present position,
and also states the views of the Council as to the amendment of the law they consider
necessary:—
Bottled Milk.—Prosecution of Unregistered Vendor.
We have considered the report from the Council's Solicitors as to a summons they
conducted against a general shopkeeper for carrying on the business of a purveyor of
milk without being registered, when the Magistrate dismissed the summons with one
guinea costs against the Council. The milk sold was described as sterilised milk, and the
Magistrate held that the defendant was a purveyor cf milk, but that, hating regard to the