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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 1950

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

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53
SECTION 6.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.

Table: Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1950 are given in the following table:—

Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1950 are given in the following table:—

Number of visits to—
Milkshops168
Dairies421
Ice cream premises769
Slaughterhouses6
Butchers' shops510
Prepared meat premises433
Fishmongers' shops135
Fried fish shops106
Fish curers' premises49
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,378
Market streets and places604
Railway goods yards, warehouses116
Attendances at Police Court24
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices118
Other visits824
Total5,661*

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

Table: Number of samples taken—

Number of samples taken—

Formal370
Informal587
Bacteriological298
Total1,255

Table: Unsound Foods:—

Unsound Foods:—

Surrenders493
Seizures13
Intimation Notices served59
Statutory Notices served5