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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 type of businesses
receiving the attention of the Public Health Department:-
Bakehouses 7
Butchers 26
Milk Retailers (including Dairies) 51
Food Factories 5
Fried Fish Premises 3
Fruit and Vegetable Retailers 32
General Provision Merchants 42
Hotels and Public Houses 52
Restaurants, Dining Rooms, Canteens, etc. 151
Wet Fish Retailers 10
Wet and Dry Fish Retailers 1
+ Miscellaneous Premises 29
+ Includes Off-Licences, Bottling Stores, Cake and Sweet Shops.
As required under Section 16 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955, or other
local Acts, the registration of 124
premises for the storage and sale
of Ice Cream, and 35 premises for the
sale of Preserved Food, is operative.