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Market Streets.
There were 377 inspections of market streets, each of which includes a
number of stalls at which meat, fish, fruit and vegetables are sold. These streets
are regularly inspected, including Saturday evening inspections.
In order to minimise as far as practicable any contamination of the food
exposed for sale in market streets from dust arising during street cleansing, the
Borough Surveyor has arranged for these streets to be sufficiently watered before
the scavenging.
Street Trading.
I received information from the Borough Engineer respecting 94 applications
from street traders for annual licences to sell various articles of food as
follows:—
Coffee stalls 5
Confectionery and drinks 11
Fish—wet and dry, including shell fish 7
Fruit and vegetables 45
Groceries 7
Ice cream or chestnuts 11
Meat 4
Poultry, eggs and provisions 4
94
All the storage places situated in the Borough were inspected.
Where the storage place is outside the Borough information as to suitability is
obtained from the Medical Officer of Health of the district concerned. In like
manner information respecting storage places in Holborn used by stallholders
trading in other areas is sent to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in
which the licence is applied for
Ice Cream.
At the end of the year the following premises were on the register:—
Manufacture and storage 1
Manufacture and sale —
Manufacture, storage and sale 20
Storage and sale 17
Sale only 22
60
In addition to my inspections, 110 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