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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
Finsbury 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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Registered Food Premises: The following is a summary of Registered Food Premises in the Borough at the end of 1946 –
| Manufacture of Ice-cream | 32 |
| Storage and Sale of Ice-cream | 46 |
| Fried Fish Shops | 12 |
| Butchers Shops and Stalls | 51 |
| Other promises | 28 |
| Total | 169 |
289 visits were made to these promises during the year.
Unsound Food: The work of meat inspection in the area of the Smithfield
Meat Market continues, since the secondment of Mr. Penman to the Ministry
of Food, to be carried out by Mr. R.S.Barber. Regular inspections of the
meat and offal consigned to the various wholesale butchers and offal shops
and to the depot of the London Wholesale Meat Supply Association were
carried out and were also made of the various bacon factories, wholesale
bacon and provision warehouses and Fublic Cold Air Stores. Visits and
inspections of the retail butchers shops in the borough were also carried
out.
Summary of Foodstuffs seized by or surrendered to the Meat Inspector during 1946.
| Diseased or unsound meat | 40,236 lbs. |
| Diseased or unsound offal and other foodstuffs | 37,559 lbs. |
| Total | 77,795 lbs. |
The number of carcases of Mutton and Lamb found to be affected with
Casoous Lymphadontis was 188.
Slaughterhouses: The slaughterhouse owned by Mr.J.A.Mobbe, 14 Penton
Street was closed down on the outbreak of the War. No animals were
slaughtered there during 1946.