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In the case of each application for registration, the premises have
been inspected and re-inspection of premises has been carried
out frequently, especially during the summer time. A considerable
number of applications for registration have been refused,
and many applicants have been interviewed by the Committee.
One of the difficulties of the present position is that premises
only are registerable and the personal habits and standard of
education of many of the applicants, mostly of foreign origin,
are such that it would be impossible to expect them to manufacture
a clean ice-cream even in ideal premises. Under the
circumstances, it would seem reasonable that in future legislation
the registration of all makers and vendors of ice-cream should be
imposed, in addition to the registration of premises.
In my opinion, it would be reasonable to prohibit the sale of
"loose" ice-cream in the street, and to require that all ice-cream
so sold should be pre-wrapped. It would also be an advantage
if the name and address of the manufacturer were required to be
printed on the wrapper, cup or packet, together with the date of
manufacture. This latter precaution might be of some assistance
in preventing the sale of ice-cream which had been thawed and
re-frozen, a practice which seems to be fairly common in this
borough.
So far as the premises in which ice-cream is manufactured
are concerned, I would suggest that —except in the case of dairies—
these should be required to be used exclusively for the making of
ice cream, and that no other produce should be either made or
sold on such premises; that water used for the manufacture of the
ice-cream and for the cleansing of vessels must come from the
rising main ; and that applicants for the registration of premises
be required to give one month's notice of their desire for registration.
Much trouble has arisen in this borough on account
of the fact that many applicants for registration purchase expensive
apparatus and rent premises before making the application.
If registration is refused on the grounds that the premises are
unsuitable, the applicant then makes a plea to the Committee
that he has spent much money on apparatus, and will be involved
in considerable loss if he is refused registration.