Hackney Cowkeepers who had no land suffered from increasingly stringent safeguards for public health. Eighty-three cowsheds and 65 slaughterhouses were inspected in 1876 and 81 cowsheds and 47 slaughterhouses were licensed in 1889 licences had dwindled to 39 and 33 in 1900, to 18

and 21 in 1912, and to 3 and 13 by 1930. A. Stapleton at Brookfield farm, Northwold Road, had 5 sheds in 1889 and 1900 and 3 in 1912. The Welford family, prominent dairymen on the north-west side of London, had 3 sheds in 1901 and one in 1912. Welford's made way c. 1928 for

United Dairies and Stapleton's later for Home Counties Dairies. The largest cowkeeper in 1930 was Edward Mason, with 29 in Downham Road, although the longest survivor was S. P. Snewin, relicensed in Oldhill Street in 1946 and still there with a dairy in the 1960s.