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During the year four dairymen and purveyors of milk
were registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops
Order, 1885. The proprietorship of three premises changed
hands, one dairy was closed, and at the end of the year
business was being carried on by the persons registered under
the Order of 1885, as follows
Dairymen or Purveyors of Milk 34
Cowkeepers, Dairymen and Purveyors of Milk 7
Cowkeepers 3
Purveyors of Milk who reside outside the district
but retail milk in the district 13
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Manufacture of Ice Cream.
The confectioners' shops and other places where ice cream
is manufactured or sold were visited during the summer
months in order to ascertain that the provisions contained in
Section 29 of the County Council of Middlesex (General
Powers) Act, 1906, were being properly complied with.
The premises now on Register at which ice cream is sold
number 37.
Slaughterhouses.
The number of private Slaughterhouses in the district
remains the same as last year, namely, eleven, and the occu
pier of each of the premises is licensed by the Council for a
petriod of one year.
With one or two exceptions, all the slaughterhouses are
old buildings, which show little or no evidence of having been
expressly designed for the purpose for which they are used.
As a result, these old buildings are structurally far below
the hygienic standard which is desirable in buildings used for
tho preparation of human food. They have, however, been
in continuous use as slaughterhouses for very long periods,
and they are well managed by the present occupiers. Three
of the slaughterhouses are now very little used.