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In an adjoining district, retailers of milk in bottles have
been called upon to provide an insulated box in which to store
the milk during warm weather but such an appliance is not asked
for by this Council.
We have 24 general shops in which milk is being sold from
pans on the counter. There are 62 other general shops in which
milk is only sold in sealed bottles or cartons.
I do not think that in any of the 24 general shops in which
milk is sold from pans on the counter, the conditions are entirely
satisfactory, but it is difficult to prove that the public health is likely
to be endangered by the methods in use. Most of these retailers
would be willing to sell the milk from sealed receptacles only, if
the practice were made compulsory and universal. In most of
these shops in addition to the objection of the sale of other goods
which create dust, the shop itself is overcrowded, and it is impossible
for the premises to be kept clean and free of dust. In my
opinion there are 8 of these general shops in which, under present
conditions, milk should not be sold from open cans. In the present
report I do not wish to deal specifically with the general shops in
which milk is sold in closed receptacles, but shops in which the
.principal article sold is milk.
As stated there are 62 general shops which sell milk only
from closed receptacles. There are 26 premises registered in or on
which milk is the principal article sold, and one other purveyor
resides in Acton, and sells his milk here, but the premises are
situated and registered at Willesden. On one of the premises 2
persons are registered, and on another, 3 persons are registered.
In all the 26 cases, there are milk rounds, and in three cases
very little milk is sold on the premises.
On all these premises milk is sold over the counter or otherwise
in open pans, but although other articles are sold there, the
condition of the premises is satisfactory.
There is one article of the Regulations to which I wish to
pall the attention of the Committee, because in the majority of
instances one part of the article is now ignored.
Article 32 of the Order states that every person engaged in
the conveyance or distribution of milk shall use all practicable precautions
for preventing the milk from being unnecessarily exposed
to heat and from being contaminated by dirt, dust, rain-water
or otherwise.