Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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(ii) Unsound Food and Food Inspection.
The following is a total of the ten items of food seized or voluntarily surrendered during the year :—
Meat—Corned Beef, one 6 lb. tin.
Ham, 14 lbs.
Pig's plucks, 105.
Sheep carcase, 1.
Fish—Herring roes, 5 tins.
Plaice, 7 stone.
Sardines, 9 tins.
Fruit—Nil.
Miscellaneous—Ice cream, 33 dozen 1d.
„ 20 dozen 2d.
„ 9 Id. chocolate bars.
(iii) Premises where foods are manufactured, prepared,
stored or exposed for sale.
These premises are kept under observation by all the Sanitary Inspectors, and during the year 830 inspections were made.
Premises. | No. of Premises on Register. | No. of Inspections. | No. of Notices. |
---|---|---|---|
Bakehouses:— | |||
14 | 36 | 5 | |
Aboveground | 20 | 31 | 11 |
Underground | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Aboveground | 13 | 11 | 3 |
Fried Fish Shops | 13 | .26 | 3 |
Ice Cream Premises | 111 | 57 | 2 |
Milk Premises | 110 | 125 | 4 |
Restaurants and Eatinghouses | 102 | 79 | 12 |
Other Food Premises, e.g,. Butchers, Greengrocers, Grocers, Provision Dealers, etc. | 557 | 462 | 67 |
Cleansing of Bakehouses.—The periodic cleansing of walls, ceilings, passages and staircases, etc., of bakehouses is prescribed in the
Third Schedule of the Factories Act, 1937, and the general sanitary