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Registered Food Premises
In addition to ice cream shops, the number of premises registered
under Section 16 of the Food & Drugs Act 1955 for the manufacture of
sausages or potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food is 72 The
various types of business carried on at these premises are as follows:-
Sausage manufacturing 32
Sausage smoking 1
Meat pickling 38
Offal cooking 5
Cooked meats and pie making 4
Ham boiling 10
Bacon curing and smoking 3
Fish curing 3
Shellfish cooking 2
Jellied eels 2
Meat extraction 1
A total of 216 visits were paid by the Inspectors during 1956.
In some instances more than one type of business is carried on at
the same premises. For example meat pickling is invariably done at
retail and wholesale butchers shops, at most of which sausages are
also manufactured. There are, however 3 wholesale sausage factories
in the borough. The cooking of meat, offal and pies is done mostly
at premises that specialise in that type of trade; this also applies
to jellied eels. The number of premises at which the boiling of hams
regularly takes place is not as high as pre war as several small provision
merchants have ceased to cook their own, prefering to sell precooked
or canned hams. Large quantities of bacon are smoked at the
establishments in the borough registered for this purpose, The
smoking of fish is also carried out locally, and in addition 2 retailers
cook their own supplies of shellfish, One large firm has a
factory in the borough for manufacturing and bottling meat extract.
In general, the conditions under which this type of food preparation
is carried on are reasonably satisfactory. Certain improve
ments, however, have been effected at particular premises during the
year.
Street Markets
The four Market Streets in the borough are Chapel Market. Exmouth
Market, Whitecross Street and Farringdon Road. A total of 597 stalls
were licensed by the Borough Council at the end of 1956 of which 197
were food stalls. The Food Inspectors visit the Market Streets daily
and made 2,281 inspections during the year.