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Preserved Food and Ice Cream Premises.—In accordance
with the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Section 14, all
premises with the exception of clubs, hotels or restaurants used :—
(a) for the sale or manufacture for the purpose of sale of
ice-cream or other similar commodity, or 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.
Preserved Food Premises (meat, fish, etc).—No applications were
received for registration during the year and the total number of
premises on the register remained the same as that for 1950, viz : 107.
Two hundred and three visits of inspection were made to these
premises, as a result of which improvements were made and sanitary
defects remedied in 15 instances.
Ice Cream Premises.—By the end of the year the number of
registered Ice Cream premises had increased by 16 to a total of 204.
Of the newer registrations, one concerned a mobile canteen
permanently situated at Sayes Court Recreation Ground and one was
a request to vary the original registration to enable the manufacture
of ' ice-lollies ' to proceed.
Manufacture and Sale of Ice Cream.—The increase this
year in the number of premises registered for the sale, etc., of icecream,
tends to suggest that consumption of this commodity in
the Borough is still rising.
Continued sweet rationing has undoubtedly sustained the
demand for ice-cream during the winter months and there is now
no marked seasonal decline in sales as was usual before the war.
Relative cheapness of the 'ice-lolly' is probably the predominant
reason for its popularity in all seasons, especially among the younger
folk.
However, in order to minimise the risk of contamination and the
spread of infection, the policy in Greenwich has been to encourage
the sale of 'wrapped' or 'carton' ice-cream in preference to the
manufacture and sale of it ' loose.'
Factories in the area which produce 'Ice Lollies' or 'Lolly'
syrup are regularly and carefully supervised.
The Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1947 to 1951.—
The above Regulations were introduced to secure the elimination
of pathogenic organisms by a heat-treatment process similar to