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Altogether, of 63 ice-cream shops inspected, 38 were found in a satisfactory
condition, and in the remaining 25 insanitary conditions of major or minor importance
required rectification. Sanitary notices were served upon the parties responsible
where required, and the necessary measures were carried out to remedy the defects
and insanitary conditions found.
COFFEEHOUSES, COOKSHOPS, AND FEIED FISH SHOPS.
In accordance with the instruction of the Health Committee special attention was
given during the year to the premises within the Borough whereon food is prepared
and cooked for the consumption of the public. The coffee houses and dining rooms,
cookshops, fried fish shops, and eel pie shops are numerous throughout the Borough,
but more especially so towards the southern and western parts of the district. The
following briefly summarises the work done in connection with them :—
Thirty-four were visited and dealt with by inspector Lear, 25 being cookshops and
. eating houses, and the remaining nine fried fish shops. Of the former, four were found
to be kept in a cleanly and satisfactory condition; the remainder all more or less
required attention chiefly on account of dirtiness of walls and ceilings of the kitchens
and dining rooms. In a few some minor sanitary defects were observed in connection
with the drainage arrangements. With respect to the fried fish shops they were found
to be kept in a very fair condition as regards general cleanliness, in three instances
some limewashing was required and in two others there were no proper dus'
receptacles.
Inspector Quelch dealt with 20 premises, nine of which were fried fish shops
Sanitary defects of major or minor importance required attention in everyone of the
cookshops and eating bouses, the chief being untrapped sink waste pipes, defective rain
water pipes, defective and dirty water closets in one or two instances and defective
yard paving. In most instances the premises were kept in a cleanly condition
generally. With regard to the nine fried fish shops, two were found in a satisfactory
condition, two were in a very unsatisfactory state, and the rest all more or less required
attention.
Inspector Firth dealt with 19, of which twelve were cookshops and eating
houses. Generally the cookshops were in very fair sanitary condition. Two required
cleansing, in three there was an absence of proper receptacles for refuse, and in two
the sink waste pipes were defective. The fried fish shops, seven in number, were with
one exception found in good sanitary condition. The exception was one in which the
walls and ceilings required cleansing.
The number of premises dealt with by inspector Jordan was 71, of which seven
were fried fish shops, of the former 36 and of the latter 3 were found in a good or fair
sanitary condition. In the remainder insanitary conditions of various descriptions required
attention, the chief being uncleanliness in respect to rooms in 38 instances,