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11
1929
Defective doors and windows repaired 236
Defective kitchen ranges and fire grates repaired 241
Defective washing coppers repaired 173
Coal cupboards provided and repaired 15
New W.C. apartments provided 7
Accumulations of offensive matter removed 42
Drains unstopped and cleansed 415
Overcrowding nuisances abated 10
Drains tested, exposed for examination, etc 94
Smoke observations taken 205
Smoke nuisances abated on service of notice 14
Nuisances from pigs and other animals abated 7
Notifications of waste of water sent to Metropolitan Water
Board 207
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
There are 79 dairies and milkshops on the register.
There are at present no cowsheds in the Borough and all
the milk is produced outside the district.
The number of milk retailers in the district is exactly the
same as that registered in 1928, but during the year the Health
Committee revised its methods of procedure in respect of the conditions
under which registration would be granted.
Seven years ago the Council also considered the whole
question of the sale of milk in general shops, and it was then
decided that as a general principle the sale of milk and paraffin
oil should not be permitted in the same shop, and notices were
served upon the occupiers of certain general shops asking them to
discontinue the sale of paraffin oil where milk was being sold.
There were at the time sixteen general shops where milk and
paraffin oil were being sold on the same premises. The occupiers
of five of these premises decided that the sale of the oil was more
profitable than the sale of milk and they ceased to sell the latter
and were removed from the register. The occupiers of the other
eleven premises discontinued the sale of paraffin and continued
on the register.
The Council has discountenanced the sale of milk on premises
where other articles which create dust are also sold. Although
milk is in itself an outstanding food, it is easily contaminated and
may become a vehicle or carrier of infection. Milk is an excellent
medium for the growth and the multiplication of certain kinds of
germs of disease. For these reasons, every care should be taken
to observe the utmost cleanliness of premises where milk is being
stored or sold.
The Council has discouraged the sale of milk in general