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Penge 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
The supervision of premises and stalls where foods are prepared, stored or
exposed for sale has been regularly carried out.
The classification of the various food businesses by type is as follows:—
| I. (a) Retail food shops (excluding cafes and restaurants and licensed premises) | 148 |
| (b) Cafes and restaurants | 20 |
| (c) Licensed premises | 23 |
| (d) Food manufacturers | 19 |
| (e) Bakehouses | 4 |
| (f) Food stalls | 11 |
II. Number of food premises registered under Section 16 of the Food
and Drugs Act, 1955, used for:—
(a) Sale or manufacture for purposes of sale of ice-cream or the
storage of ice-cream intended for sale 97
(b) The preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved food intended for sale (including premises
registered for onion peeling) 87
The peeling of onions at outworkers premises will not be permitted after the
31st December, 1962.
III. Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1959 2
IV. Number of inspections of registered food premises 297
There is one ice-cream manufacturer in the district. This is limited to
"soft ice-cream."
Your public health inspectors continued to give advice to occupiers of food
premises on matters relating to food and general hygiene.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human
consumption after examination by your inspectors was 1 ton, 3 cwt. and 3 qtr.
The food condemned was as follows:—
| Biscuits | 153 pkts. | Meat Paste | 3 jars |
| Cream | 5 tins | Offal | 28 lb. |
| Fish | 11 tins | Ovaltine | 1 tin |
| Fish | 635 pkts. | Poultry | 46 pkts. |
| Flour Confectionery | 160 pkts. | Preserves | 1 tin |
| Fruit | 178 tins | Preserves | 4 jars |
| Fruit | 3 pkts. | Pudding | 1 tin |
| Gherkins | 280 lb. | Prunes | 36 pkts. |
| Jam | 10 tins | Salad Cream | 1 bot. |
| Meat | 197 pkts. | Soup | 7 tins |
| Meat | 20 tins | Sugar Confectionery | 28 lb. |
| Meat | 540 lb. | Vegetables | 910 pkts. |
| Milk | 2 tins | Vegetables | 72 tins |
| Condemnation Certificates issued—53. | |||