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St Pancras 1952

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

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51
SECTION 6.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.

Table: Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1952 are given in the following table:—

Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1952 are given in the following table:—

Number of visits to—
Dairies523
Milk distributors200
Ice cream premises639
Slaughterhouses13
Butchers' shops810
Prepared meat premises596
Fishmongers' shops154
Fried fish shops148
Fish curers' premises78
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,475
Market streets and places769
Railway goods yards, warehouses105
Catering establishments564
Attendances at Police Court34
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices244
Other visits704
Total7,056*

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* These visits do not include visits made for the purpose of taking samples.
Intimation notices served 55
Statutory notices served 3

Table: Milk Supply. The Number of dairies and milk distributors on the Register at the end of the year was:—

Milk Supply. The Number of dairies and milk distributors on the Register at the end of the year was:—

Dairies110
Milk distributors286
Itinerant milk distributors36
The number of persons registered for the sale of cream and artificial cream was11