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In addition to the eating-house kitchens there are 21
kitchens in connection with cooked meat shops, where the meat
is prepared but not consumed on the premises. Five of these
places are ham-and-beef shops, and 16 are premises on which
sausages and cooked meats are prepared and sold. A
considerable number of defects were found in these places, but
their condition generally has very much improved since they
have been brought under systematic supervision. In one of
the sausage shops the meat chopping was done in a cellar
in which a horse was stabled, the horse's occupation being to
turn the chopping machine. The only way by which the horse
could lie got out of his underground stable was up an inclined
plane let down from the shop floor. There is great need for
bye-laws to regulate these places. Indeed, all premises in
which human food is prepared, stored or sold should be subject
to a much more stringent sanitary code than that which
Sanitary Authorities have to administer at the present time.
Recent advances in sanitary science have demonstrated how
potent an agent in the spread of disease food may become.
Much of the disease once attributed to "bad smells" is known
to be due to contaminated food. Sanitary legislation has not
kept pace with sanitary science in this respect, but it is to be
hoped that local authorities will soon be given adequate powers
to enable them to protect the public from the consumption of
unwholesome food.
Fried Fish Shops.
The following is a list of the fried fish shops in the
Borough:—