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MILK.
The importance of milk as an article of diet practically indispensable
in childhood makes the supervision of the conditions
under which it is produced, distributed and stored one of the chief
concerns of sanitary administration.
COWSHEDS.
There are seven cowsheds in Willesden, of these two are situated
in the urbanised portion of the district, viz., one at South Kilburn and
the other at Willesden Green, the other five are in the more outlying
or rural parts of the district.
During the year they have all been visited on several occasions.
Early in the year structural works of importance entailing a
considerable expenditure of money were carried out in two instances,
thus effecting a most marked improvement in the structural condition
of the cowsheds.
These works were rendered the more necessary owing to the
replacement of horse-keeping by dairy farming, a change which has
naturally followed in the rural environment of London by the growth
of motor traffic and consequent decline of horse traction.