London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Pancras 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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57
SECTION 6.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.

Table: Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's three Food Inspectors during 1948 are given in the following table:—

Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's three Food Inspectors during 1948 are given in the following table:—

Number of visits to—
Milkshops144
Dairies466
Ice cream premises935
Slaughterhouses6
Butchers' shops and meat stalls834
Prepared meat premises519
Fishmongers' shops206
Fried fish shops140
Fish curers' premises54
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,564
Market streets and places1,413
Railway goods yards, warehouses100
Attendances at Police Court58
Re.inspection after Intimation Notices302
Other visits972
Total7,713*

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Those visits do not include visits made for the purpose of taking samples.

Table: Number of samples taken—

Number of samples taken—

Formal515
Informal685
Bacteriological345
Total1,545

Table: Unsound Foods:—

Unsound Foods:—

Surrenders460
Seizures3
Intimation Notices served111
Statutory Notices served15