London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| Butchers' shops | 27 |
| Butchers' stalls | 1 |
| Provision dealers | 35 |
| Provision dealers' stalls | 3 |
| Offal shops | 2 |
| Cooked meats | 19 |
| Wholesale (bacon;sausage) | 5 |
| 92 |
All the butchers' shops and meat stalls in the Borough are regularly inspected
to ensure compliance with the Regulations; during the year 252 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
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 | 521 |
| Slaughter-houses | |
| Tripe, offal and other meat shops | 47 |
| Fried fish shops | 15 |
| Fish shops | 14 |
| Ice cream (Manufacture) | 8 |
| Poulterers | 8 |
During the year 1,894 inspections of such food premises and market streets
were made and 8 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.
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