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St Pancras 1919

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1919

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the Borough at the end of 1919. They do not conform to a high standard of
excellence.
The Food Inspectors pay visits at intervals to the slaughter-house and
inspect the meat therein at each visit. During 1919 they made 143 visits.
Fried Fish and Fish Curing Premises.
At the end of 1919 there were 49 fried fish vendors' premises in the
Borough, at 2 of which fish curing was also carried on. There were 14 fish
curers' premises, including these two. 143 visits were made by the Food
Inspectors to these premises during the year.
A large number of these premises are not in compliance with the by-laws
as regards the structure of their premises and apparatus, but as most of them
have been in use for some years they arc exempt from the operation of the
by-laws in this respect.
Ice-Cream Premises.
132 visits were paid to these premises by the Food Inspectors during 1919.
No legal proceedings were taken.
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
At the end of 1919 there were 172 bakehouses on the register, including 38
factory bakehouses and 41 bakehouses not in use.* 127 of the 172 were
underground bakehouses, of which 25 were factory bakehouses, and 41 not
in use.
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At the end of the year 422 restaurant kitchens were on the register.
Bakehouses and restaurant kitchens arc visited by the Factory and "Workshop
Inspector, and particulars in regard to his inspections of them will be
found on page 25.