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Attention has been throughout directed also to the character of
ice cream whether loose or wrapped sold in the borough but manufactured
elsewhere.
By 1955 there only remained 3 places where manufacture actually
took place although the registration of other premises remained valid:
one of these was in many ways unsatisfactory and was removed from the
register during the year, thus leaving only two premises on which the
manufacture was continued.
Practically all the ice cream sold from the retail shops in the
borough is supplied by the large manufacturers and is pre-wrapped.
The number of visits to ice cream premises by the Food Inspectors
during 1955 was 100. Special attention was paid to the premises and
the plant of the firms manufacturing ice cream particularly when the
examination of samples indicated that conditions might not be entirely
satisfactory. Assistance and advice was given in tracing the possible
causes of contamination. Certain samples of bulk ice cream
taken in course of delivery to a Finsbury firm from another area were
found not to be fully satisfactory and the matter was taken up with
the Authority concerned.

Meat Inspection
There are now no licensed slaughterhouses in the Borough and no
slaughtering has taken place since the war The slaughterhouse in
Penton Street which was closed down at the outbreak of war has not
been relicensed.