London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Hammersmith 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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(a) the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale, of ice
cream, or the storage of ice cream intended for sale, or
(b) the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved food intended for sale,
Unless they are registered under this section for that purpose by
the local authority.
The following summary gives details of the number and type of premises registered under this section:-
| ice cream manufacturers | 6 |
| " " sales only | 10 |
| Confectioners (sweet shops) selling ice cream | 147 |
| Restaurants (selling ice cream for consumption off the premises) | 28 |
| Grocers selling ice cream | 78 |
| Bakers & Confectioners selling ice cream | 4 |
| Fruit & Greengrocers selling ice cream | 8 |
| Butchers preserving meat and/or manufacturing sausages | 52 |
| Grocers preserving meat | 17 |
| Fishmongers curing fish | 3 |
| Flood Factories manufacturing sausages and preserved foods | 3 |
The above total includes 10 new registrations effected during the
year.
496 inspections of registered food premises were made during the
year.
Milk Supplies
The Milk and Dairies Regulations 1949 to 1954 control the
stration of premises and provide for the protection of milk against
contamination throughout its stages of production and sale. Again it
was found that the most frequent contravention under these Regulations
related to the use of bottles from which all foreign matter had not
been removed. it is an unfortunate fact that milk bottles are at times
used for purposes other than those for which they are designed, e. g.
the holding of paint, paraffin etc. Also bottles left on building sites
containing cement sometimes find their way back to the milk depots.
The dairy companies in the borough have issued strict instructions to
their staff to destroy any such bottles. There has been in existence
for some years in London and other parts of the country, a company operating
a bottle recovery service who collect 'stray' milk bottles,
subject them to special treatment and sell them back to their original
owners. Despite these methods taken for dealing with this problem,
some contaminated bottles do get filled again with milk and find their
way back to the consumer.
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