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In addition there are 9 other bakehouses in use in Pinsbury. A
total of 233 visits were paid during 1958.
Registered Food Premises
In addition to ice-cream premises, 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 74. The
various types of business carried on at these premises are as follows:-
Sausage manufacturing 32
Sausage smoking 1
Meat pickling 39
Offal Cooking 5
Cooked meats & pie making 4
Ham boiling 11
Bacon curing & smoking 3
Fish curing 3
Shellfish cooking 2
Jellied eels 2
Meat extraction 1
A total of 287 visits were paid by the Inspectors during 1958.
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 arc
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 has
decreased since the war small provision merchants having ceased to
cook their own hams, preferring to sell pre-cooked or canned hams.
Large quantities of bacon are smoked at the establishments in the
borough registered for that purpose. The smoking of fish is also
carried out locally and in addition two retailers cook their own
supplies of shellfish. One large firm has a factory in the borough
for manufacturing and bottling meat extract.
The conditions under which the above types of food preparation
and preservation are carried out in the Borough are reasonably satis
factory. Improvements have been effected during the year, and constant
supervision is being maintained.