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The London Cold Storage Company's premises at 32, Wandsworth Road which
has a capacity of 16,000 tons began operating as a cold store in August 1964.
There are facilities for receiving imported food by barge from the London
Docks as well as by road and rail.
Two hundred and fifty eight samples of inported food have been taken and
submitted to the Public Health Laboratory service for examination for the presence
of food poisoning organisms and any indication of undesirable bacterial contaminatio
The food samples included frozen cooked meat; frozen beef kidneys; frozen cooked
and uncooked prawns; frozen liquid whole egg and pasteurised liquid whole egg.
Street Markets
Markets are held in The Cut; Lower Marsh, Lambeth Walk and Wilcox Road in
the Inner Wards and in Popes Road, Electric Avenue and Brixton Station Road.
All are inspected regularly.
Slaughter of Animals Act
No application was made during the year for the issue of a licence under the
provisions of this Act.
PUBLIC SWIMMING BATHS
1 am indebted to the Scientific Adviser of the Greater London Council for the
following reports on the results of Bacteriological Examinations of water from
Kennington Park and Brockwell Park Swimming Baths.
1965 No. of Agar count, 1 ml. 37oC. Presumptive E. coli.
samples 48 hrs. coliform without in
E. coli. 100 mis.
0-10 11-100 Over 100 in 100 mis.
Brockwell
Summer 11 10 1 - - 1
Winter 6 6 - - - 1
Kennington
Summer 11 7 4 - - -
Winter 10 10 - - - -