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Unsound Food.
The sources of food supply received constant and careful
supervision during the year, particularly on Saturdays.
In cases where a retail vendor has unknowingly purchased
articles of food unfit for human consumption, and has made no
attempt to sell the articles, it is the practice, when the latter
are brought to the Health Office, to grant a certificate which
enables the retailer to claim the return of the money paid in
respect of the articles to the wholesale dealer. The food is
subsequently destroyed at the destructor. Nineteen such
certificates were granted during the year, relating to the
following articles:—Bananas, haddocks, kippers, lobsters,
mackerel, plaice, plums, potatoes, skate, sprats, tomatoes,
and witches.
Ice Cream Premises.
Part VIII. of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1902, which came into operation on the 1st
November, 1902, contains the following important provisions
relating to the manufacture and storage of ice creams:—
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or
dealer in ice creams or other similar commodity who
within the County—
(a) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar
commodity to be manufactured sold or stored in any
cellar shed or room in which there is any inlet or
opening to a drain or which is used as a living room
or sleeping room;
(b) In the manufacture sale or storage of any
such commodity does any act or thing likely to
expose such commodity to infection or contamination
or omits to take any proper precaution for the due
protection of such commodity from infection or
contamination; or