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Street Traders.—There are 90 Streot Traders who are
engaged in selling articles of food. Genorally speaking, it was
found that the premises where such articles of food were stored,
were in all respects reasonably clean.
Preserved Food Premises.—In accordance with the pro
visions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, 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 130 promises wore
duly registered. These premises were inspected on 135 occasions
and insanitary conditions remedied in 15 instances.
Preserved Meat, etc., Premises.—At the end of the year 139
premises were on the register and were visited on 313 occasions. As
a result of such inspections insanitary conditions were detected and
remedied in 18 cases.
There was no instance found which necessitated the cancellation
of premises already registered.
Food Bye-laws.—Bye-laws have been made by the London
County Council under Section 183 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936 for promoting sanitary and cleanly conditions in the
manufacture, preparation, storage, transport or exposure for. sale
of any article intended to be sold for food for human consumption.
These will come into operation on 1st January, 1937.
Bakehouses.—Two hundred and twenty-four inspections have
been made of the various bakehouses in the Borough, and 96
nuisances found therein have been abated.
At the end of the year there were 24 factory and 14 other
bakehouses on the Register, 12 of which were underground.
Food and Drugs Acts.—Altogether 449 samples have boon
taken under the provisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928, and submitted to the Public Analyst for analysis of which
number 230 were formal samples. Nine of these samples were
certified to be not genuine, the adulteration thus being equivalent to
3.9 per cent. of the samples taken as compared with 5.1 last year.
During the year it was found necessary to institute Police
Court Proceedings in only one instance. The sample in question