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The food - stalls in the market streets—Chapel Street, Exmouth
Street, and Whitecross Street—are regularly inspected, and special
arrangements are made for inspection on Saturday nights and
Sunday mornings.
SANITATION OF FOOD PREMISES.
In addition to making provision for the refusal of registration
of milk sellers by the Borough Council, and the removal of names
already on the register, the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1908, deals also with other matters relating to food supply.
The Section referring to these (Section 8) is set out in full
in the slip which is attached to the form upon which application is
made for registration, a copy of which will be found on page 89.
One of the most important provisions in the Section relates to
the occupation of rooms adjoining food shops, stores, etc., and used
as sleeping rooms.
Soon after the Act came out a complete survey of the food shops
in the Borough was made to discover the extent of the practice
of using adjoining rooms as sleeping rooms. In all, 394 places were
visited, and 42 shops with sleeping rooms communicating were
found. Each of these premises was seen by the Medical Officer and
the Chief Inspector, the contravention of the law being pointed
out to the occupant. In 3 cases only was it necessary to serve a
notice in addition to seeing the occupiers, the suggestion that other
arrangements should be made being readily adopted. In the cases
in which a notice was served, the alteration called for was afterwards
made.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The arrangement in connection with sampling under these Acts
is that 600 samples should be taken by the Inspectors per annum,
500 being ordinary samples (including milk) and 100 extra samples
(milk only). Each Inspector samples in his own district once a
month, and no person retailing articles of diet is omitted.