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Holborn Clean Food Guild
The Holborn Clean Food Guild had another successful year in 1956. While membership unfortunately dropped below the hundred mark to a total of ninety-seven, this was due
mainly to cases where members had had to vacate premises owing to the expiration of lease.
Nine new applications were received during the year, eight of which were approved for
membership. There remained at the end of the year sixteen applications in respect of
premises which have not yet been brought up to standard.
A number of plastic "wash you hands" notices were purchased and a copy distributed
to each member. Further copies were offered at a cost of ls. 3d. per notice; and orders
were received for a further fifty-two notices. In October members were sent a large notice
together with a poster suitable for display to the staff setting out the responsibilities placed
upon food handlers by the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955. These notices and posters
together with a suitable letter inviting membership of the Guild were also circulated to all
non-member food traders in the Borough.
It had been hoped that a new Guild Brochure would have been in course of production
by the end of the year, but there was some delay owing to the publishers having difficulty
in selling the necessary advertising space.
As a mark of appreciation of the great work which Alderman M. P. Greengross had
done in the formation of the Guild and in promoting its progress the Guild elected him its
first President.
As in previous years, the Borough Council assisted the Guild by means of publicity
in the form of posters relating to food hygiene.