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There are in the district 52 retailers and 12 whosesale distributors of sterilised
milk.
During the year the Council and your officers have been occupied on many
occasions in an attempt to carry out your statutory duties with respect to the quality,
storage and distribution of milk supplies by the London and Suburban Dairies, Limited,
and their successors. This work has largely been frustrated by the provisions of Section
2 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, and by the formation of a chain
of companies by the company in question. The penalties awarded in the Courts could
not be collected, and for this reason prosecution proved abortive. The most recently
formed company was continuing to sell milk in the district at the end of the year.
Representations have been made to the departments of the Ministry of Health
and the Public Prosecutor.
I hope you will take every step you can to see that all milk which is pasteurised
shall be sold as pasteurised milk. This, I think, is the first important step to take
in promoting a cleaner milk supply.
I am glad to note that legislation may be introduced soon to control the sale of
all treated milk, a matter to which I have referred in my reports for the last three
years.

The Barking Corporation Act, 1933, came into operation at the end of July, 1933.
We were not able forthwith during the ice-cream season of 1933 to effect any radical
changes, but I am to advise you that we are doing so for 1934 and that at the time of
writing this Report the matter is well in hand.
2. MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
(a) Meat.—-The one licensed slaughter-house continued in the occupation of the
same person and has not given cause for complaint during the year.