Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough.
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on hygiene in the kitchen, and on clean milk production. Arrangements
were also made for parties of pupils to visit food factories and milk
Processing depĂ´ts.
These talks and visits were greatly appreciated and are undoubtedly
of considerable educational value.
Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park.
A close control is exercised by the Council's Officers over the
catering arangements in these Gardens, and it can be recorded that no
case of serious illness was traced to any food purchased there, nor was
any complaint made about the catering arrangements.
Slaughterhouses.
There is only one licensed slaughterhouse in the Borough. Its
use ceased about the middle of 1950 and has not been resumed.
Butchers' Shops.
There are 72 butchers' shops in the Borough, and in addition a
numberof shop where cooked meats are sold. All these shops are
systematically inspected, 1,056 visits having been made during the year.
In general, the shops are well conducted, and no formal action was
found necessary.
Four shop where horseflesh is sold for human food are included
in the above figure.
Dairies and Milkshops. The following table gives the dairies and milkshops registered in the Borough and the changes during 1954:-
Retail | Wholesale | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
On register at 1st January | 37 | 7 | 44 | |
Transferred to (b) below | 2 | - | 2 | |
Closed during year | 1 | - | 1 | |
On register at 31st December | 34 | 7 | 4l | |
(b) Milkshops, where only the occupier is registered as a distributor:- | ||||
On register at 1st January | 99 | |||
Added during year, by new registrations | 3 | |||
Transferred from (a) above | 2 | |||
On register at 31st December | 104 | |||
(c) "Out-of-Borough" registrations (i.e., persons selling milk in Battersea from premises in other boroughs):- | ||||
On register at 1st January | 30 | |||
Removed during year | 1 | |||
On register at 31st December | 29 |
A total of 312 visit were made to these shop during the year.
Generally they are very well conducted. In no case was any contravention
of the Statutory requirements found.