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These have yielded excellent results, 4l satisfying the Methylene
Blue and Phosphatase Tests which indicate keeping quality and
efficiency of heat treatment, and 30 samples being genuine
chemically.The average milk fat content was 3.8 per cent, as
against a legal minimum of 3 per cento

HAMPSTEAD HEATH FAIR
The accompanying photographs give an indication of the high
standards of cleanliness which now exist at many of the stalls
owned by the fairground caterers; standards which have been achieved
by the co-operation, good will and good sense of the stallholders
and the unremitting and unstinted work of the Sanitary Inspectors.
In this connection, I would particularly refer to the work of
Mr. T.H. Marshall during the past five years.
Whilst there has obviously been a considerable improvement in
cleanliness at food stalls during this period, It must not be
imagined that I feel any complacency regarding the present position.
There is still plenty of room for further Improvement, but I doubt
whether this can be obtained whilst the London County Council's
present practice with regard to the letting of plots continues,
viz. by tender to the highest bidder, without preliminary enquiries
as to the cleanliness of the premises wherein the food to be sold
is stored or prepared.
Members of the Inspectorial staff and their assistants were
on duty throughout the Easter, Whitsun and August Bank Holiday fairs.
Apart from the general hygienic supervision of the fairground
catering arrangements, your Inspectors took 105 samples for
bacteriological examination and 70 for chemical analysis.
My thanks are again due to Dr. Betty Hobbs, Principal of the
Food Hygiene Section of the Government Central Public Health
Laboratory, Colindale, for her very valuable co-operation and
assistance, even to the extent of personal visits to the Heath to
see for herself the particular catering hygiene problems involved.