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 Willesden]
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Table 39 Food premises: Defects remedied
Defects | Outstanding at 31.12.58 | Found during the year | Total | Remedied during year | Outstanding at 31.12.59 |
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Inadequate lighting and ventilation | 1 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
Inadequate washing facilities | 8 | 32 | 40 | 36 | 4 |
Inadequate refuse storage | 6 | ||||
Unsatisfactory or insufficient sanitary accommodation | 12 | 39 | 51 | 43 | 8 |
Inadequate storage accommodation | 5 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Defective walls, ceilings or floors | 19 | 104 | 123 | 96 | 27 |
Dirty walls, ceilings or floors | 35 | 247 | 282 | 246 | 36 |
Inadequate first aid materials | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | |
Unsatisfactory conditions | 3 | 32 | 35 | 35 | — |
Any other defects | 176 | 204 | 174 | 30 | |
Totals | 114 | 682 | 796 | 678 | 118 |
Table 40 Food premises: Registration
Premises on register 31.12.58 | Applications received | Applications granted | Applications refused | Premises removed from register during 1959 | Total on register at 31.12.59 | ||
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1. Sale and storage of ice cream | 360 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 45 | 340 | 348 |
2. Manufacture of ice cream | 11 | 3 | 8 | ||||
3. Manufacture of preserved food | 135 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 137 | |
4. Fish curing | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
Table 41
Food unfit for human consumption
Tinned milk | 381 | tins | |||
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Bacon | 2,381 | lbs. | Butter and fats | 1 | lb. |
Cooked | 21¼ | lbs. | Whole egg (powdered) | 154 | lbs. |
Tinned | 2,919½ | lbs. | |||
Raw | 1,096¼ | lbs. | |||
Tinned | 361 | tins | Cornflakes | 4 | pkts. |
Raw | 140 | lbs. | Dried fruit | 183¾ | lbs. |
Frozen food (miscellaneous) | 347 | pkts. | |||
Fruit juice | 108 | tins | |||
Tinned | 3,030 | tins | Liver and kidney pudding | 17 | tins |
Raw | - | - | Meat pie | 18 | |
Rice pudding | 6 | tins | |||
Tinned | 5,041 | tins | Salad cream | 4 | jars |
Raw | 237 | lbs. | Sausages | 5½ | lbs. |
Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 53 | lbs. | Sauce | 11 | bottles |
Preserves | 145 | lbs. | Soup | 223 | tins |
Cheese | 63 | pkts. | Treacle | 2 | lbs. |