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The retailer may, within 21 days, appeal to a Court of summary
jurisdiction against the decision of the Sanitary Authority, and
either the retailer or the Sanitary Authority may further appeal to
a Court of Quarter Sessions.
The decision of the Sanitary Authority is not to take effect
pending appeal.
In the case of a proposed refusal to register, the provisions of
the Order which prohibits a person from carrying on the trade of a
dairyman unless he is registered are not to take effect until the
appeal is finally determined.
Power is also given under Sec. 2 to the Court before whom any
retailer is convicted of an offence relating to milk or dairies, in
addition to any other penalty, to remove him from the register for
such period as the Court may think fit.
The procedure under the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act
in regard to registration in practice will be found, in my opinion,
complicated and cumbersome, and will lead to delay and inconvenience
to all concerned. Moreover the fact, that, pending the
result of a final appeal against a proposed refusal by the Sanitary
Authority to register, milk can be sold by an unregistered dairyman
or milk purveyor, is an unsatisfactory feature of the Act.
The provisions of Section 4 prohibiting the addition of any
colouring matter or of water to milk intended for
sale are useful, and will enable Sanitary Authorities to take proceedings
under this Act rather than under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, and so avoid the warranty defence which frequently
acts as a barrier to proceedings by Local Authorities for the fraudulent
addition of water to milk.
Ice Cream.
There are 148 premises in the Borough from which ice cream
is sold. Eight of these premises are occupied by Italians, all of
whom carry on the sale of this article of food from street barrows.
All premises, stalls and barrows are kept under systematic
inspection. During 1922, 14 ice cream premises were removed
from the register and 40 were added. There was, therefore, an
increase of 26 in the number on the register as compared with 1921,
due probably to the decrease in the price of the ingredients used
in the preparation of this popular commodity. The trade appears
gradually to be passing away from the Italian colony and into the
hands of the English traders, a change which, on sanitary grounds,
is to be welcomed.
During the year 336 inspections of ice cream premises were
made by the Council's inspector, and 11 notices were served to
remedy defects found on inspection. In addition, during the
summer season a daily inspection of the street barrows and the
utensils and vessels, glasses, towels, &c., used by the owners of
these vehicles was also carried out.