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Wood Green 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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Table: (d) Inspection of Food PremisesThe following visits were made to food premises during the year and where defects were found the requisite steps were taken to have them remedied:-

(d) Inspection of Food Premises

The following visits were made to food premises during the year and where defects were found the requisite steps were taken to have them remedied:-

Butchers' Shops102
Dairies and Milk Shops54
Ice Cream Premises92
Fried Fish Shops6
Stalls40
Other Food Premises365

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(e) Food and Drugs Act, 1955
As I mentioned earlier in this Report, the Food and Drugs
Act 1955 came into operation on 1st January 1956 This Act is
a consolidating measure It repeals the Food and Drugs Amendment
Act, 1954 and consolidates it together with the Food and
Drugs Act 1938,the Food and Drugs(Milk, Dairies and Artificial
Cream) Act 1950 and certain other enactments amending and supplementing
Part V of the 1938 Act.
The Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food has used
his powers to make Regulations under this Act. These are more
sweeping than anything we have had before In consequence more
work has divulged on the Public Health Department especially
on the Sanitary Inspectors whose duty it is to ensure that these
Regulations together with the parent Act are fully complied
with. In the latter part of last year the preparatory work was
already well under way, in readiness for the coming into operation
of this Act.
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950. Section IIRegistration
of Hawkers of Food.
Sixty-three hawkers of food in the Borough are registered.
FACTORIES AND HOMEWORK

Table: 1. Inspections

1. Inspections

PremisesNumber on RegisterNumber of
InspectionsWritten NoticesOccupiers prosecuted
FACTORIES WITHOUT mechanical power4036——
FACTORIES WITH mechanical power181648—
OTHER PREMISES in which Section 7 is enforced by the local authority22——
Total2231028—