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cleanliness in the form of an adequate supply of
washing basins, hot and cold water, soap, nail brushes
and towels. The draft byelaws are still under consideration
but it is to be hoped they will be issued in
their substantive form as soon as possible.
The Borough Council has been concerned, so far
as its powers permit, to improve the hygienic conditions
under which food is sold from street stalls,
following upon a report I submitted to the Public
Health Committee in 1933 concerning the sale of
unwashable food by street traders in the borough. In
addition to the general requirement that such traders
must guard against contamination of the food they
offer for sale, the Street Trading Committee intimated
to licensees during 1934 that certain foods must not
remain exposed for sale uncovered unless the stalls
concerned were covered on top and enclosed at the
back and sides. The foods in question were sweets,
toffee apples, cakes and biscuits, sugar, meat pies,
fruit from tins and jellied eels. There are of course
some itinerant vendors to whom the street trading
byelaws do not apply and these are particularly
difficult to control. Anomalies also exist in the
conditions applying respectively to shops, especially
those with open fronts or projecting stalls, and street
stalls. Hence the need for general regulations concerning
the manufacture and sale of food, irrespective
of the particular form of manufacture or place of
trading.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
Seven hundred and thirty-five samples were
taken; 690 of these proved to be "genuine" and 45 or
6.2 per cent. adulterated.