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Hampstead 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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(ii) Unsound Food and Food Inspection.
The following is a total of the ten items of food seized or voluntarily surrendered during the year :—
Meat—Corned Beef, one 6 lb. tin.
Ham, 14 lbs.
Pig's plucks, 105.
Sheep carcase, 1.
Fish—Herring roes, 5 tins.
Plaice, 7 stone.
Sardines, 9 tins.
Fruit—Nil.
Miscellaneous—Ice cream, 33 dozen 1d.
„ 20 dozen 2d.
„ 9 Id. chocolate bars.
(iii) Premises where foods are manufactured, prepared,
stored or exposed for sale.

These premises are kept under observation by all the Sanitary Inspectors, and during the year 830 inspections were made.

Premises.No. of Premises on Register.No. of Inspections.No. of Notices.
Bakehouses:—
With mechanical power— Underground14365
Aboveground203111
Without mechanical power—
Underground132
Aboveground13113
Fried Fish Shops13.263
Ice Cream Premises111572
Milk Premises1101254
Restaurants and Eatinghouses1027912
Other Food Premises, e.g,. Butchers, Greengrocers, Grocers, Provision Dealers, etc.55746267

Cleansing of Bakehouses.—The periodic cleansing of walls, ceilings, passages and staircases, etc., of bakehouses is prescribed in the
Third Schedule of the Factories Act, 1937, and the general sanitary