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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 1954

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

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SECTION 6
Inspection and Supervision of Food

Table: Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1954 are given in the following table:-

Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1954 are given in the following table:-

Number of visits to-
Milk distributors624
Ice cream premises481
Slaughterhouses21
Butchers' shops893
Prepared meat premises448
Fishmongers' shops182
Fried fish shops209
Fish curers' premises67
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,651
Catering establishments886
Market streets and places816
Railway goods yards, warehouses86
Attendances at Police Court15
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices242
Other visits898
Total7,519*

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* These visits do not include visits made for the purpose of
taking samples.
Intimation notices served 30
Statutory notices served 4
MILK SUPPLY
The Number of dairies and milk distributors on the Register at the end of
the year was -
Dairies 106
Milk distributors 298
Itinerant milk distributors 36
The number of persons registered for the sale of
cream and artificial cream was - 11
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