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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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SECTION E
FOOD
Food Premises
The number of known food premises in the borough at the end of
the year was as follows
Restaurants cafes & snack bars 165
Public houses 120
Off-licence premises 9
Factory canteens 73
Commercial canteens appro 50
Dairies and milk distributors etc. 137
Ice Cream sellers 145
Confectioners (sweets) shops 73
Bakers shops 24
Bakehouses 16
Grocers and provision shops (retail) 40
Provision merchants (wholesale) 13
Cheese importers (wholesale) 3
Greengrocers and fruiterers 22
Fish shops 4
Fish curers 3
Fried fish shops 9
Eel & pie shops 5
Poultry dealers (wholesale) 4
Butchers shops (retail) 37
Wholesale butchers and offal dealers 24
Wholesale horseflesh dealer 1
Bacon factories 8
Sausage factories 3
Sausage casings merchants 6
Meat extract factory 1
Public cold stores 6
Chemists shops (retail) 19
Manufacturing and wholesale chemists 9
In addition there are some 200 street market stalls dealing In
various foodstuffs
The total number of visits paid to all food premises during 1957
was 3 552 and to food stalls 3 399