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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 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]

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Table: FOOD Food Premises The number of known food premises in the borough at the end of the year was as follows:

FOOD

Food Premises

The number of known food premises in the borough at the end of the year was as follows:

Restaurants, cafes & snack bars161
Public houses123
Off-licence premises9
Factory canteens73
Commercial canteens approx.50
Dairies and milk distributors, etc.134
Ice cream sellers140
Confectioners (sweets) shops74
Bakers shops24
Bakehouses15
Grocers and provision shops (retail)37
Provision merchants (wholesale)14
Cheese importers (wholesale)3
Greengrocers and fruiterers20
Fish shops4
Fish curers3
Fried fish shops9
Eel & pie shops4
Poultry dealers (wholesale)4
Butchers shops (retail)36
Wholesale butchers and offal dealers21
Wholesale horseflesh dealer1
Bacon factories8
Sausage factories3
Sausage casings merchants5
Meat extract factory1
Public cold stores6
Chemists shops19
Manufacturing and wholesale chemists9

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In addition, there are some 200 street market stalls dealing in
various foodstuffs.
The total number of visits paid to all food premises during 1956
was 2,135 and to food stalls 2,281.