Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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The number of such places on the register at the end of the year was as follows :—
Hotels, Restaurants and Eating Houses | 309 |
Slaughter-houses | 1 |
Tripe, offal and other meat shops | 48 |
Fried fish shops | 15 |
Fish shops | 13 |
Ice cream (Manufacture) | 22 |
Poulterers | 8 |
During the year 2,490 inspections of such food premises and market streets
were made and 27 notices served for sanitary defects found.
Inspection of Restaurant Kitchens.
The large day population in the Borough calls for many eating houses ranging
from the "cook shop" to the high-class restaurant. The inspection of the
kitchens of such places has become a routine but important part of the work of
the Public Health Department. Generally the kitchens are found to be
satisfactory and the food clean and wholesome. Occasionally, however, some
action is necessary to ensure compliance with a reasonable standard of efficiency.
In all 21 notices were served during the year respecting unsatisfactory conditions
at hotels, restaurants and eating houses.
The following unsound food was condemned during the year 1935:-
Commodity. | Quantity. | Condition. | Result of Action taken. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tons. | Cwts. | Qrs. | lbs. | |||
Fruit :— | ||||||
Cantaloupe melons | ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | Rotten | Surrendered |
Dates | ... | ... | ... | 6 | Rotten | do |
Grapes | ... | 1 | 2 | 12 | Rotten | do. |
Oranges | 18 | 5 | 0 | 20 | Rotten | do |
Pears | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8 | Rotten | do. |
Plums | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | Rotten | do. |
Meat :— | ||||||
Bacon | ... | ... | 3 | 8 | Decomposed | do. |
Chickens | ... | ... | 1 | 17 | Decomposed | do. |
Ducks | ... | ... | ... | 15 | Decomposed | do. |
Ostend Rabbits | ... | ... | ... | 8 | Decomposed | do. |
Pork | • •• | ... | ... | 20½ | Diseased | do. |
Tongues, tinned | ... | ... | ... | 12 | Mouldy | do. |
Other Food :— | ||||||
Camembert cheese | ... | ... | 2 | 16 | Rotten | do. |
Tomato puree, tinned | ... | ... | 2 | 19 | Damaged and perforated tins | do. |
Total | 20 | 2 | 1 | 25½ |