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10. Floors to be washed every day.
11. No customer apparently suffering from any skin or hair affection to be
attended to in a public saloon.
12. The most scrupulous cleanliness to be observed in all matters pertaining
to the business, and a proper and efficient antiseptic to be used.
FOOD.
Street Markets and Food.
The number of inspections of premises at which food is prepared or sold,
made by each Inspector during the year, is shown in the Table on page 50.
The following were surrendered or seized and destroyed as unfit for the
food of man: Apples, 3 cwts. and 6 cases; grapes, 6 cwts. 2 qrs.; greengages,
14 lbs.; mackerel, 2 qrs.; onions, 5 boxes; peaches, 1 box; pears, 2
boxes; pigs' heads, 59 cwts.; pineapple chunks, 1 tin; savoy cabbage,
12 tons 10 cwts. 3 qrs.; and tomatoes, 10 boxes and 2½ cwts.
Slaughterhouses .
There is only one licensed slaughterhouse in the Borough. No animals
were slaughtered during the year.
Meat.
The number of butchers' shops under inspection during the year was 54
and the number of visits of inspection was 130.
General observation was kept of all meat stalls where butchers' meat was
exposed for sale. One warning letter was sent in respect of minor infringements
of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
Legal proceedings were instituted in one case, and the defendant was
fined 5s. Od.
Cowhouses.
Particulars regarding the inspection of the two cowhouses in the Borough
are contained in the Table on page 52.
At the end of the year 26 cows were being kept in these two cowhouses.
The sanitary condition of both cowhouses can be regarded as satisfactory.
Speaking generally, however, the arrangement under which cows are
kept in the middle of a densely-populated urban area like Shoreditch cannot
be regarded as altogether suitable.
The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
These Regulations prohibit a person suffering from Tuberculosis, who
is in an infectious condition, from following any employment or occupation
in connection with a dairy which would involve the milking of cows, the
treatment of milk, or the handling of vessels used for containing milk.
It was not necessary for these reasons to prohibit any person from following
his occupation in a dairy during the year under consideration.