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MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
Registration of Food Premises.
Section 14 of the Pood and Drugs Act, 1938, requires that all
premises used for the sale, manufacture or storage of ice cream,
or the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved food intended for sale shall be registered
by the local authority. The premises so registered in Camberwell
at the end of the year were as follows : —
Sale, manufacture or storage of ice cream 387
Manufacture of sausages 142
Preparation or manufacture of:—
Potted, pressed, pickled or preserved meat 218
Potted, pickled or preserved fish 92
Potted, pickled or preserved other foods 31
Supervision of Food Premises.
All premises in the Borough where food is manufactured
stored or sold are periodically visited by the district sanitary
inspectors to ensure that a satisfactory standard of hygiene is
observed. The record of such inspections carried out during the
year under review is summarised in the following table: —
Type of Premises.
No. of
Inspections.
Bakehouses 137
Bakers and Confectioners 127
Butchers 182
Cooked and Preserved Meat 22
Dairies and Milkshops 213
Fishmongers and Shell Fish Vendors 79
Fish Fryers 183
Fish Curers 259
Food Factories 24
Ice Cream 642
Public Houses 84
Restaurants and Eating Houses 486
Slauehterhouses 24
Street Markets 1,535
Street Traders Food Stores 9
Other Food Premises 3,455
Total 7,461
Food Inspection.
It is one of the duties of the Pood Inspector to examine any
food suspected to be unsound, and if in his opinion it is unfit
for human consumption, the food is surrendered and a condemnation
certificate issued. Two thousand, four hundred
and forty-two such certificates were issued during the year.
The following table gives particulars of the unsound food
condemned during 1950 : —