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SUPERVISION OF THE ICE CREAM TRADE.
Inspections in connection with the manufacture or sale of Ice Cream within the City
have been carried out. In cases where the manufacture took place in other areas, the appropriate
Local Authorities were informed of the circumstances and requested to state if the
premises and process of manufacture were satisfactory. Replies to these enquiries showed,
with one exception, the conditions to be satisfactory. In the case mentioned steps were
taken by the Authority concerned to stop the manufacture at the premises, and the sale
ceased within the City.
The barrows or stalls of itinerant vendors were visited from time to time during the
Summer season, and in several instances, where lack of cleanliness was observed, the issue
of a caution resulted in an improvement being effected.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928, became operative during the
year, and requires the registration of certain premises where ice cream is stored, sold, or
manufactured.
FERTILISER AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1926.
The Fertiliser and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926, which came into operation on tne 1st July,
1928, has thrown upon the Corporation additional responsibilities in regard to the supervision
of fertilisers and feeding stuffs. The Act requires, among other things, that the Corporation
shall appoint an official agricultural analyst and such inspectors and samplers as may be
neceesary to ensure the proper carrying out of the requirements. It is anticipated that
in the City the work involved will not be large, but it is essential that these appointments
be made to meet possibilities, and the City Analyst, Mr. E. A. Pinchin, B.Sc., has been accordingly
appointed Agricultural Analyst, and three of my present sanitary inspectors, Messrs.
Harrington, Neale and Tyler, have been provisonally appointed as official samplers and
inspectors. If developments should exceed my anticipations, a revision of these appointments
and a more elaborate organisation may be necessary. The quarterly reports to the
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries have been dispatched as a matter of routine.
CITY MORTUARY.
Bodies Received—Post-Mortems and Inquests:—
Bodies received at the Mortuary to await burial 159
Post-Mortem examinations made 93
Inquests held on bodies 147
Inquests held on fires 2

Disinfection—Trade.—In accordance with the requirements of the South African
Government, the disinfection of second-hand clothing, prior to export to that country, has
been carried on as usual.

In addition to the foregoing, some assistance was rendered to the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury
during a period when the disinfection apparatus operated by that authority was out of use.