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 following is a summary of the work tarried out during the year as a resu???
of Notices served under the Food and Drugs Acts, 1938-1950, in respect of food premises:
Precautions taken to prevent contamination of food 2
Provision of suitable sink draining board 1
Suitable wash basins, soap, clean towels and clean hot and cold water provided
for use of employees 5
Walls, ceilings, floors or doors of food room cleansed 13
Walls, ceilings, floors, windows or doors of food room repaired 6
Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
Notices.
Seven notices were served during the year under the above Act in respect of
nuisances found to exist at food premises in the Borough. As a result of notices the
following nuisances in food premises were abated during the year:—
Water closets.
Flushing cistern repaired 1
Sinks.
Waste pipes repaired or renewed 1
Drainage.
Rainwater pipes repaired 1
Various.
Provision of proper receptacles for kitchen refuse 1
Registrations.
The Milk and Dairies Regulations require every Local Authority to keep a register
of all persons carrying on the trade of distributor in their district and of all premises
which are used as dairies. "Dairy" does not include a shop from which milk is supplied
only in the properly closed and unopened vessels in which it is delivered to the shop, or