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Registered Food Premises (other than ice cream).
Seventy food premises were registered at the end of 1954.
All were registered for the preparation or manufacture of sausages,
or potted, pressed, pickled or preserved meat, fish or other preserved
food.
Other Food Premises.
2,056 visits were made to food premises during the year, which
includes inspections of restaurants, canteens, registered food premises,
etc.
Prospective occupiers of food premises are not bound to consult
this department before commencing business, but many, of course,
do so and all others are visited as soon as their existence becomes
known.
Street Markets.
Much food is handled in the Street Markets and the appropriate
Department issued licences for 226 stalls during the year. In each
case any storage accommodation used for foodstuffs was inspected
throughout the year.
Licensed Premises and Public Houses.
There were 133 licensed premises in the Borough, 123 of which
were Public Houses. 91 inspections were carried out.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act.
Forty-four applications for names to be placed or retained in
the Council's list of sellers of part II poisons were approved by
the Council.
Each of the premises concerned were visited during the year.