Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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In addition, 34 samples of ice-cream were taken for chemical
analysis by the Public Analyst, all of which complied with the standard laid down by the Food Standards (Ice Cream) Regulations,
1959, i.e. not less than 5 per cent, fat and not less than 7½ per cent.
milk solids other than fat.
The fat content of the samples taken ranged from 5.2 per cent.
to 16.8 per cent.
Ice Cream and Preserved Food Premises. The following summary, which includes new registrations affected during the year, shows details of the number and type of premises registered under Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
Ice Cream Manufacturers | 3 |
Ice Cream sales only | 18 |
Confectioners (sweet-shops) selling ice-cream | 153 |
Restaurants (selling ice-cream for consumption off the premises | 41 |
Grocers selling ice-cream | 108 |
Bakers and Confectioners selling ice-cream | 5 |
Fruiterers and Greengrocers selling ice-cream | 16 |
Butchers preserving meat and/or manufacturing sausages | 51 |
Grocers and Provision Dealers preserving meat | 17 |
Grocers and Provision Dealers preserving fish | 1 |
Fishmongers curing fish | 2 |
Food Factories manufacturing sausages and preserved food | 3 |
Total | 418 |
Milk Supplies.
The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960.
New legislation concerning milk was brought out in October,
1960, when the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960, came
into operation. These Regulations consolidate and re-enact with
amendments the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949 to 1954 and the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised
and Sterilized Milk) Regulations 1949 to 1953.
Some of the changes are:—
Licences—Dealers' licences will permit sales outside as well
as inside the area of the licensing authority and supplementary
licences are discontinued. The period for which a dealer's licence
is granted is extended from one year to five years.
A dealer only selling milk in the same sealed containers as he
receives them is issued with a new form of licence which permits
him to sell any or all three kinds of specially designated milk–
"Pasteurised" "Sterilized" and "Tuberculin Tested". This
simplifies licencing procedure.