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It is obvious that the intention of this Act was to compel a disclosure of the place
of manufacture in order that the manufacture may be supervised to some extent and
the purity of the article ensured.
Bearing on this subject, the case mentioned above as being one of the
display of a wrong address of place of manufacture, the name and address
exhibited in this instance was No. 38, Warner Street—the reply received
from the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Holborn in answer to the
enquiry sent him as aforesaid, was "Not made on the premises."
Thereupon the itinerant vendor, by name B. Di Gennaro, was interviewed, and he
stated that he lived at No. 38, Warner Street, but that he manufactured his ice creams
at No. 2, Little Bath Street.
It will be seen by this case that the object of the Act may easily be defeated as,
from the Section quoted, it does not appear that a person who manufactures ice cream
is under any obligation to disclose the place of manufacture if he exhibits his own name
and address on his barrow.
In consideration of the difficulties with which those who have the administration of
the Act are confronted, it would appear desirable that some additional words should be
added after the words "name and address" in the Section quoted, which would require
that the place at which the commodity was prepared should be given or displayed if
such is not the same as the address of the vendor.
The same difficulty arises if the itinerant vendor purchases his stock from a person
who does not himself make it, inasmuch as there does not appear to be any obligation
on the part of this middleman to disclose the place of manufacture.
Four itinerant vendors, who were found selling ice cream from barrows which did
not display any name or address, were summoned and fined.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS ORDERS.
At the end of the year there were 640 Purveyors of Milk and Dairymen registered
in the City of London, as compared with 638 in 1912, an increase of two.
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The sale of milk was discontinued at 25 premises, and the owners' names removed
from the Register; 65 new registrations have been reported, of which 27 were
instances of new businesses being established, and 38 were consequent on there being a
change of ownership.
The milk sellers of the City may be divided into two groups, viz., retailers, who
sell milk in a shop to be taken away, or for consumption on the premises, and are
termed "Purveyors of Milk," and those who, in addition to thus selling milk, have a
milk round in connection with their business, and who are designated "Dairymen."
Of the former there are 616, and of the latter 24.