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SECTION V.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Three Sanitary Inspectors have been specifically appointed for the inspection
and supervision of food and food premises. Two of these are responsible for the
inspection of meat at the slaughter-houses, and for the taking of samples under
the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and the various Regulations dealing
with food standards. The third regularly and systematically inspects all food
premises, especially those so used for the first time, paying particular regard to
the hygiene of premises used for the sale, etc., of food, as provided for in the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936. In addition, each district inspector exercises a general
supervision over all food exposed for sale and all food premises in his district, and
in turn is responsible for the bi-weekly inspections of the market.
Milk Supply.—The Borough Council is required to keep registers for all
persons carrying on in the Borough the trade of cowkeeper, dairyman or purveyor
of milk. The register of retail purveyors of milk is to be kept separate from the
other. All dairies have to be registered also. Information on these matters is
set out below in tabular form.

The number of inspections of these premises was 357, and a high standard of
cleanliness in cowsheds and dairies and in other premises where milk is sold has
been maintained.
The cowsheds in the Borough are fast disappearing. At the end of the year
they were as set out in the following Table, No. 24:—