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terms. In January the licence of N. A. Barrett, of 188, Fore Street, was
renewed for another three years. In April the licences of Howes, 19, The
Green, and Chester, 3, The Green, were granted for one year. In May the
licence of E. Knifton's slaughterhouse was renewed for a year.
5.—Pigs. An order of the Privy Council of the 11th May amended the
D.O.R.A. regulations, 1914, by which it was made lawful to keep pigs (for 5
years) irrespective of the distance from a street or public place, providing the
Local Sanitary Authority agrees; also every authority is empowered to itself
establish and conduct piggeries. It was decided in September not to keep
pigs on our sewage farm. Owing to these alterations of the law, the Public
Health Committee consented to the erection of pig-styes at 7, Raynham
Avenue, 27, Rays Road, (bottom of) Lowden Road, 12', Pretoria Road, Hazlebury
Road (Church Street end), 98, Hertford Road and "Glenbrook," Angel
Place; the Plans Committee also agreed to pig styes being erected at 60,
Lyndhurst Road. The two styes at the rear of 226, Fore Street have been
removed.
6.—Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops. There are only two cowkeepers
now in the district, the same as the last three years; and about 25
cows are owned by these keepers. Veterinary inspection of the cows is not
undertaken in this district, either by my Council or the County Council.
There were 94 purveyors of milk in our register at the end of the year.
As regards letters in April from the Workers' Union and the local Food
Vigilance Committee, the Public Health Committee advised a reply that in
view of the fact that the Ministry of Food was making arrangements for the
distribution of milk in the locality, the moment was inopportune for the
Council to intervene and the writers were referred to the milk department of
the Ministry.
In June the agreement for a temporary building at the rear of 17, The
Green, was renewed to Mr. Elms until six months after the conclusion of the
war.
At the Trade Union Congress, on September 3rd, a resolution was unanimously
adopted, declaring that the national control of milk should be made
absolute at the earliest possible moment, and that the whole supply and distribution
of milk should be nationally owned and managed. Mr. Stewart
Bunning, in moving the resolution on behalf of the Parliamentary Committee,
said that the Consumer's Council had been told that milk prices must go up
and milk supplies decrease; under the present system it was impossible to
ensure for children cheap, sufficient, or anything like pure milk.
7.—Unsound Food. In March, the tuberculous organs of an ox were
surrendered from a slaughterhouse. In May, both unsound meat and fish came
into our possession. In July, two carcases of beef were found diseased at
slaughterhouses. Also in July, seven trucks of mutton carcases arrived
during this torrid month at Angel Road station. I understand that the
carcases had been salved from a torpedoed steamer, and were on their way to