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Preserved Food Premises.—In accordance with the provisions
of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, all
premises with the exception of clubs, hotels or restaurants used : —
(a) for the sale or the manufacture for the purpose of sale of
ice-cream or other similar commodity, or the storage of ice-cream
or other similar commodity intended for sale ; or
(b) for the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted,
pressed, pickled, or preserved meat, fish, or other food intended for
sale ; are required to be registered by the owner or occupier with
the sanitary authority.
Ice-Cream Premises.—At the end of the year 135 premises were
duly registered. These premises were inspected on 178 occasions
and insanitary conditions remedied in four instances.
Preserved Meat, etc., Premises.—At the end of the year 116
premises were on the register and were visited on 52 occasions. As
a result of such inspections insanitary conditions were detected and
remedied in eight cases.
There was no instance found which necessitated the cancellation
of premises already registered.
Bakehouses.—One hundred and sixty-eight inspections have
been made of the various bakehouses in the Borough, and forty
nuisances found therein have been abated.
At the end of the year there were 24 factory and 16 other
bakehouses on the Register, 13 of which were underground.
Food and Drugs Acts.—Altogether 448 samples have been
taken under the provisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928, and submitted to the Public Analyst for analysis of which
number 155 were formal samples. Ten of these samples were
certified to be not genuine, the adulterations thus being equivalent to
6-4 per cent of the samples taken as compared with 1.7 last year.
Police Court proceedings were instituted in 3 instances. In one
case the Vendor was fined £4 and £2 2s. 0d. costs, whilst the
remaining two cases were dismissed on payment of £1 1s. 0d. costs.