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6. Pigs. The sewer, in January, became blocked in Milton Road, and
it was found to be due to solid matter coming from a piggery adjacent to
a slaughterhouse in Langhedge Lane. After the blockage had been relieved
the future chance of further blockage was prevented by the placing of a large
catchpit on the drainage of this establishment.
On the 22nd April plans were passed for two pigstyes on plot 94 of the
Weir Hall allotments. Plans were passed in June for two pigstyes on plot 78
of Weir Hall allotments.
In September three tenants in Sebastopol Road were found to be keeping
pigs within 150 feet of a dwelling house and were given until Christmas
to abolish them.
7. Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops. There are only two cowkeepers
now in the district, the same as last year; and only 33 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 96 purveyors
of milk on our register at the end of the year.
The President of the Local Government Board once more brought a
Milk Bill before Parliament, but it did not reach the Statute Book.
In November, the Edmonton Co-operative Society of Shrubbery House,
Fore Street, was registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order.
8. Unsound Food. Inspectors Winter, Coates, and myself hold the
certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute as Inspector of Meat and Foods. My
Inspectors regularly, and I myself at (purposely) irregular intervals, visit the
coster stalls on The Green and near Angel Bridge. Concerning seizure of
unsound fish, see "Market on The Green."
The Officials of the Middlesex County Council frequently take samples of
milk, food and drugs from tradesmen in Edmonton, and successful prosecutions
have been instituted by the County, when adulteration or substitution was
revealed on analysis by the County Chemists.
9. Offensive Trades. Gutscraper. On the 26th August the Council
sealed the new by-laws for the regulation of the offensive trade of gutscraper in
Edmonton Urban District and they were confirmed by the Local Government
Board on 15th September.