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Fulham 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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INSPECTION OF BAKEHOUSES AND BAKERS' SHOPS.
There are 66 registered bakehouses in the Borough, 38 of which are underground.
Of the 66 bakehouses, 54 are factories and 12 are workshops; in addition there are 13
retail bakers' shops in the Borough without bakehouses attached.
During 1935, 416 visits were made and 81 notices served, principally for the limewashing
and cleansing of the interior of bakehouses. In addition, a large amount of cleansing,
etc., is carried out as the result of verbal intimation to the occupiers.
INSPECTION OF MEAT AND OTHER FOODS AND OF FOOD PREMISES.
This is extremely important for the health of the community. The inspections are made
for many reasons, but principally:
(1) To ensure that articles of food are sound, wholesome, free from disease and fit
for the food of man.
(2) That the premises are in good sanitary condition and clean.
(3) That the persons engaged in food occupations are clean in their persons and free
from disease, and that they carry out their duties in a hygienic and wholesome
manner.
The public can assist materially by encouraging clean food shops and discouraging any
that are not obviously clean and hygienic.
The following table shows the number of inspections of the various types of food premises:—
| Milk shops and dairies | 538 |
| Ice cream premises | 105 |
| Butchers' shops | 170 |
| Fish shops | 24 |
| Fried fish shops | 54 |
| Fish curing premises | 20 |
| Greengrocers' and Fruiterers' premises | 39 |
| Cooked meat shops | 15 |
| Eel and pie shops | 4 |
| Dining Booms and Eating Houses | 149 |
| Restaurants | 35 |
| Licensed premises | 92 |
| Street Traders' storage premises | 53 |
| Slaughter Houses | 91 |
| Factory bakehouses | 331 |
| Workshop bakehouses | 38 |
| Workplace bakehouses | 10 |
| Bakers' shops | 37 |
| Food factories other than those included above | 93 |
| Other food premises | 155 |
| 2,053 |
The inspection of food shops and of food is carried out by the District Inspectors and
the Woman Inspector as well as by the Sampling Officer. Two Inspectors are on duty two
evenings a week inspecting the North End Road Market, the Fulham Market and other street
markets in addition to shops. All the male Inspectors take their turn on this duty.