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Officer of any outbreak of infectious illness amongst the
persons employed in the business. Every itinerant vendor
must have the name and address of the manufacturer of such
commodity written on a conspicuous part of his barrow.
In one instance, at the request of a local tradesman, I
examined four cases of pears, and as they were found to be
unsound and unfit for human food they were destroyed.
It is with pleasure that I again acknowledge the ready
assistance and the facilities which the various food purveyors
in the district have given when their premises have been
visited. In one case, however, the proprietor of a fried fish
business questioned my authority to inspect the fish which he
had in preparation for sale, but upon an explanation being
given he withdrew his opposition.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, AND MILKSHOPS.
At the end of the year there were 29 Dairies and Milkshops
and 11 Cowsheds in the District. The usual periodical
inspections of these premises have been maintained, and the
necessary steps taken to enforce the observance of the various
provisions of your Council's Regulations made under the
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops' Order, 1885.
In addition to the dairymen in the district, there are a
number of milksellers who come to Finchley to sell milk from
neighbouring places, and, as we could exercise but little control
over these persons, no steps have as yet been taken to
register them as purveyors of milk.
The half-yearly limewashing of the cowsheds and dairies,
in cases where their structure is such as to render it desirable,
has been carried out, and it has been seldom necessary to call
the attention of the occupiers to any contraventions in regard