Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924
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Other Premises used for the Preparation or Sale
of Food.
There were 206 such premises on the register, the
majority being restaurant-kitchens. Six hundred and
thirty-three inspections were made during the year,
and arising out of such inspections 48 Notices to
remedy faults or insanitary conditions were issued.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
There were 3 licensed slaughterhouses in the
Borough at the end of 1924, situated at: —
294, Bethnal Green Road.
354, Bethnal Green Road.
278, Hackney Road.
Seventeen visits were made to slaughterhouses
by the Food Inspector during the year.
SLAUGHTERERS OF POULTRY.
There are 10 slaughterhouses for poultry in use,
all of them situated in the west ward of the Borough:
59 visits were paid to them during the year. There
are also 5 premises on which poultry are kept prior
to slaughter, and to which the by-laws would apply.
Premises on which slaughtering of poultry is
carried on : —
147, 151, 159 and 267, Brick Lane, 107, Bethnal
Green Road, 49 and 80, Virginia Road, 71, Church
Street, 36, Hare Street and 92, Columbia Road.
Premises on which poultry are kept prior to
slaughter:—
254, Brick Lane, 86, Sclater Street, 9 and 58,
Collingwood Street and 14, Bacon Street.
UNSOUND FOOD.
The Food Inspector has kept under regular inspection
food exposed or deposited for sale in
slaughterhouses, shops (especially butchers', cooked
meat and fishmongers' shops), stalls and market places.