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Holborn 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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In addition ice cream was also manufactured on the following premises :—
| Mr. Bennett's District. | Mr. Clark's District. | Mr. Larard's District. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Confectioners | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| Other | — | 4 | 1 |
Nowadays the hygienic standard in large factories where ice cream is made is
so high that the arrangements for making ice cream in smaller places suffer by
comparison. There is no essential reason why ice cream should not be manufactured
hygienically in these smaller places, but at the same time owing to this
increasing tendency of large manufacturers to undertake the making of ice cream
it behoves the makers of smaller quantities to have careful regard to the conditions
under which the commodity is made.
Where ice cream sold in the Borough is made at premises outside Holborn, it
is our practice to ask for information as to the conditions of manufacture from the
Medical Officer of Health of the area concerned. On the other hand, we receive a
number of such enquiries from other districts respecting ice cream made in
Holborn, principally in the " Italian Colony," and sold in other districts.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1925.
These Regulations came into operation on the Ist April, 1925; they deal with
slaughter-houses, meat marking, the handling of meat in wholesale markets,
conditions of transport, the protection of meat in butchers' and other shops and
on stalls from contamination by flies, mud and other contaminating substance.
The following summary shows the number of butchers' shops and meat stalls in the Borough, and the number of other shops where meat is sold: —
| Butchers' shops | 28 |
| Butchers' stalls | 3 |
| Provision dealers | 28 |
| Provision dealers' stalls | 3 |
| Offal shops | 3 |
| Cooked meats | 5 |
| Wholesale (bacon; sausage) | 3 |
| 73 |
All the butchers' shops and meat stalls in the Borough are regularly inspected
to ensure compliance with the Regulations; during the year 613 such inspections
were made.
It is regretted that in a few cases (eight) the undesirable practice continues
of exposing meat for sale outside the shop on stallboards projecting beyond the
building line. If all butchers selling from shops were required to discontinue
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