London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hampstead 1953

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

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The interior of a mobile food preparation van.
Here all food is prepared for immediate service to
the customers at the temporary snack bar adjacent to
the van. Typical of many similar outfits provided
at a Bank Holiday Fair on the Heath. The policy is
to encourage traders to prepare all food under
hygienic conditions at the Fair, and to discourage
food preparation in domestic kitchens, where the
sanitary inspector has little or no control.