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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chelsea 1956
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1956
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
As required by current legislation, registers are maintained of all
persons engaged in carrying on trades connected with the manufacture,
storage and sale of food.
Traders and their staffs are kept well informed of the latest
methods adopted for the hygienic handling, wrapping and delivery of food,
and the great majority are appreciative of such advice.
The following summary gives details of the types of businesses receiving the attention of the Public Health Department:-
| Bakehouses | 5 | |
| Butchers | 29 | |
| Milk Retailers (including Dairies) | 52 | |
| Food Factories | 5 | |
| Fried Fish Premises | 3 | |
| Fruit and Vegetable Retailers | 37 | |
| General Provision Merchants | 44 | |
| Industrial Canteens | 7 | |
| + Miscellaneous Premises | 33 | |
| Hotels and Public Houses | 52 | |
| Restaurants | 198 | |
| Wet Fish Retailers | 9 | |
| Wet and Dry Fish Retailers | 1 | |
+ Off Licences, Bottling Stores , Cake
and Sweet Shop.
As required under Section 16 of the
Food & Drugs Act. 1955, or other
local Acts, the registration of
118 premises for the storage and
sale of Ice Cream, and 35 premises
for the sale of Preserved Foods,
is operative.