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Holborn 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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At the end of the year the following premises were on the register:-
| Manufacture only | 1 |
| Manufacture and storage | 1 |
| Manufacture and sale | — |
| Manufacture, storage and sale | 20 |
| Storage and sale | 3 |
| Sale only | 21 |
| 46 |
In addition to my inspections, 51 inspections of these premises were made.
Where ice cream sold in the Borough is made at premises outside Holborn, it
is the 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.
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 | 27 |
| Butchers' stalls | 1 |
| Provision dealers | 35 |
| Provision dealers' stalls | 3 |
| Offal shops | 3 |
| Cooked meats | 19 |
| Wholesale (bacon; sausage) | 5 |
| 93 |
All the butchers' shops and meat stalls in the Borough are regularly inspected
to ensure compliance with the Regulations; during the year 595 such inspections
were made.
Places where Food is prepared for 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 as prepared for sale, excluding bakehouses.