Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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ICE-CREAM
The number of manufacturers of ice-cream in the Borough is
now 4. Each of them is equipped to produce pasteurised ice-cream,
and production is in every way in accord with the Ice-Cream
(Heat Treatment etc.,) Regulations, 1947/1952. There are 140
premises where ice-cream is not manufactured, but where the commodity
is sold in the main from pre-packed stocks. During the year
229 samples were taken, 155 of ice-cream manufactured in the
Borough, and 74 from shops or itinerant vendors trading in icecream
manufactured outside the Borough.
The high bacteriological standard reflected in the results of
examination of samples of ice-cream, together with inspection of
plant and premises, has shown that processing and storage
conditions are satisfactory and well maintained.
MEAT INSPECTION AT SLAUGHTERHOUSES
Regular slaughtering of pigs at the slaughterhouse of T. Wall
and Sons has grown during the year and has necessitated the permanent
attendance of a larger staff of the Local Authority in the
course of meat inspection, with increased hours of overtime duty.
CARCASES AND OFFAL INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED IN WHOLE OR IN PART — 1957
1. | Number killed | 215,774 |
2. | Number inspected | 215,991 |
3. | Dead on arrival or died in pens | 217 |
4. | All diseases EXCEPT TUBERCULOSIS Whole carcases condemned | 241 |
Carcases of which some part or organ was condemned | 25,337 | |
Percentage of the number inspected affected with disease other than Tuberculosis | 11.85 |