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Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 34.
MILKSHOPS
The following table gives the results of inspections of milkshops in the district
| District. | No. in Diotrict. | Total No. of Inspections. | No. found satisfactory. | No. found defective. | No. where articles other thau food are sold. | No. where steam is used for cleansing. | No. where the domestic copper is used both for cleansing of utensils and washing of clothes. | No. of new milkshops opened. | No. of milkshops discontinued. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 2 | 29 | 79 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 29 | 91 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | 23 | 89 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 | — |
| 5 | 30 | 102 | 26 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 41 | 124 | 33 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Totals | 152 | 485 | 120 | 32 | 46 | 16 | 48 | 14 | 11 |
The table has to be interpreted in the light of the general powers
conferred for regulating the trade in milk. These by no means fulfil
uanitary requirements. Persons wholly unacquainted with the rudiments
of scientific cleanliness and incapable of distinguishing the
grosser forms of filthy practices in which the untrained and incapable
indulge, are entitled to be registered as milk vendors and to pursue a
calling for which they are fitted neither by training nor natural
capacity.
Milk as a medium for the distribution of ingestible filth is
probably unsurpassed by any other article of diet, and is likely to
remain so until some standard of qualification is demanded from those
who are registered as persons entitled to engage in the trade.