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of them personally, and found them generally satisfactory.
Ten certified underground bakehouses are not in use.
Ice-cream Shops.
40. Eighty-nine ice-cream shops were on the register
at the close of the year, compared with 108, 98, and 86, in
the three previous years. Nine were added and 6 removed
during the year. There were 178 inspections made, and
9 notices served. Regulations, embodying the provision-;
for ice-cream shops contained in the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, are distributed at every shop on
the register. The shops are inspected in April, June,
and August, by Inspector Powell.
Disinfection.
41. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff,
etc., were fully described in my Annual Export, 1903,
pages 73-76. Rooms at 1,093 houses were disinfected, compared
with 1,333, 987, and 964, in the three preceding
years. The disinfecting apparatus was used 1,093 times for
21,860 articles.
347 books from the Free Libraries and Public Schools
were disinfected.
The sum of £4 12s. 6d. was received for disinfection
of rooms in special cases on request of the occupier.
Disinfectants are supplied by the Department for disinfecting
infected soiled linen, infected stools, sputa in
phthisis, for personal use in infectious disease, and for
use by the Contractor in dust receptacles. They are dispensed
at the Maxey Road Depot, the Sun Street Mortuary