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Poplar 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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SECTION D
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
FOOD PREMISES.
The number of food premises in the area by type of business is as
follows:—
Manufacturing premises 36.
(Confectionery 4; Flour Millers 3; Edible oils 1; Ice cream 4; Wine
blenders 2; Nut roasters 2; Grocery 3; Pickles 1; Spice grinders 1;
Pood dehydration l; Meat products 6; Mineral waters l; Sugar refiners 2
Bakers 2; Essences 1; Sausage Rusk 1; Biscuit 1).
This list does not include places where food is manufactured principally
for retail sale on the premises.
Wharves 27. Cold Stores 3.
Wholesale premises 16.
(Grocers 10; Banana Merchants 1; Confectioners 3; Fruiterers 2).
Retail premises. 948.
(Grocers 170; Confectioners 119; Restaurants 118; Industrial canteens 97;
Non-industrial canteens 26;School meals centres 25; Public houses 156;
Off-licences 22; Bakers 32; Fishmongers 34; Greengrocers 60; Butchers
60; Chemists 18; Miscellaneous 11).
Street market stalls 150.
REGISTERED PREMISES.
Food & Drugs Act, 1955, Section 16.
(a) Ice cream: Manufacture and sale 13
Sale and storage 188
Storage only 4
(NOTE - In addition to the premises referred to above ice cream is also sold
from 36 premises exempt from registration, i.e., Restaurants, Cinemas,
etc.)
(b) Sausages and preserved etc., foods 56
Milk & Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959.
Dairies NIL
Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1960.
Dealers inside the Borough 100
All milk distributors within the Borough have been licenced as required
by the new Regulations.
Dealers' licences will be valid for a period of five years from January
1st, 1961, and will be renewable for subsequent quinquennial periods.
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