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In addition to my inspections, 95 inspections of these premises were made.
On one occasion during the year an Inspector found, on a barrow from which
ice cream was being sold, that the inner sides of the receptacle covers were dirty.
A letter on the subject was sent to the vendor and to the Medical Officer of Health
of the district of registration, and the unsatisfactory conditions were at once
remedied.
Where ice cream sold in the Borough is made at premises outside Holborn, it
is our practice to ask for information as to the conditions of manufacture from the
Medical Officer of Health of the area concerned. On the other hand, we receive a
number of such enquiries from other districts respecting ice cream made in
Holborn and sold in other districts.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
These Regulations deal with slaughter-houses, meat marking, the handling
of meat in wholesale markets, conditions of transport, the protection of meat in
butchers' and other shops and on stalls from contamination by flies, mud and
other substance.
The following summary shows the number of butchers' shops and meat stalls
in the Borough, and the number of other shops where meat is sold: —
Butchers' shops 29
Butchers' stalls 1
Provision dealers 36
Provision dealers' stalls 3
Offal shops 3
Cooked meats 19
Wholesale (bacon; sausage) 5
96
All the butchers' shops and meat stalls in the Borough are regularly inspected
to ensure compliance with the Regulations; during the year 571 such inspections
were made.
Places where Food is prepared (or Sale.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eating-houses
of all sorts, slaughter-houses, tripe, offal and other meat shops, fried fish, eel
and other fish shops, premises where ice cream is made, and other places where
food is prepared for sale, excluding bakehouses.
The number of such places on the register at the end of the year was as
follows: —
Hotels, Restaurants and Eating Houses 298
Slaughter-houses 1
Tripe, offal and other meat shops 48
Fried fish shops 14