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Premises where Food is Prepared for Sale.
These premises were kept under supervision during the year.
The number of inspections was 392, and include hotel kitchens,
restaurant kitchens, coffee shops, eating houses, fried fish shops, eel pie
shops, oyster bars, ham and beef cooking, sausage making, meat
chopping, etc., or any place where food is cooked or prepared for sale
to the public, or intended for human consumption.
The premises added to the register during the year numbered 11,
and removals 6, leaving 126 premises on the register. 27 notices were
served for amendment of various defects and for cleansing, and these
were complied with.
The premises were found generally well kept and in good condition,
and the occupier always ready to comply with any request as to
amendment or cleanliness of the premises.
Bakehouses.
The number on the register at the end of the year 1914 was
65—57 as "workshops" and 8 as "factories." During the year 2 were
added to the register and 5 removed.
UNDERGROUND BAKEHOUSES.
The number of Underground premises in use at the end of the year
was 22.
CLEANSING AND LIMEWASHING.
The cleansing and limewashing was regularly done in accordance
with the regulations, and any defect or insanitary conditions immediately
remedied on discovery. The number of inspections was 243,
and in 2 cases notices were served.
No legal proceedings were necessary. The bakehouses throughout
the borough are kept in a satisfactory condition.
With a view to ensuring that the cleansing of bakehouses is carried
out periodically as required by the Factory Act, and to avoid the
necessity of repeated visits by the Inspector, a circular is sent to the
occupier of each bakehouse when such cleansing is due to be carried
out to the effect that:—
"All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and all the
ceilings or tops of those rooms (whether those walls, ceilings, or tops
are plastered or not), and all the passages and staircases of a
bakehouse, must either be painted with oil or varnished, or be limewashed,
or be partly painted or varnished and partly limewashed;