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 Westminster, City of]
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ought to have been made, or in which such itinerant vendor as aforesaid
shall offer any such commodity as aforesaid for sale, as the case may be.
Provided always that if any Sanitary Authority omit to institute
such proceedings, the Council may institute the same, as if such omission
were a default within the meaning of The Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and the provisions of that Act relating to any such default and
the consequences thereof shall apply with respect to such proceedings.
Slaughter-houses.—There is now only one slaughter-house in the
City, viz., at 14, Regency Street, two others having relinquished the use
of their premises.
Tripe Boilers.—Two places are licensed in the City; one iu St.
Margaret's Ward, the other (shortly to be closed) in the Strand Ward.
Restaurants.—The County Council forwarded a copy of a Report by
their Public Health Committee on the subject of inspection of kitchens
at hotels and restaurants, and expressing the hope that the City Council,
unless it has already done so, will cause such kitchens in the City to
be inspected, and will exercise its powers under The Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, for the removal of any insanitary conditions that
may be found as a result of the inspection.
The Council informed the County Council that inspection of the
premises referred to was carried out in the ordinary way by the Health
Department.
Food and Market Inspections.
The following list shows the quantity of food seized, condemned, and destroyed as unfit for food during the year:—
Apples | 20 barrels | Mutton | 1 piece |
Asparagus | 78 bundles | Ox tongues | 2 |
Bananas | 1,494 crates | ,, livers | 2 |
Beans | 392 baskets | Oranges | 92 cases |
„ Madeira | 269 „ | Plaicc | 6 cwt. |
Black Currants | 80 bushels | Pears | 42 cases, and' |
Beef | 88 stone, and | 73 baskets | |
1 piece | Persimmons | 54 boxes | |
Caviare | 25 gross of tins | Plums | 32 cases, and |
Cod | 1 barrel | 400 sieves | |
Cherries | 43£ bushels | Potatoes | 9 bags |
Grreens | 26 bags | Rabbits | 13 |
Haddocks | 5 | Strawberries | 25 bushels |
Herrings | 201 tins | Salmon | 63 tins |
Lamb | 7½ lbs. | Sloes | 17 boxes, and |
Lemons | 6 cases | 40 pecks | |
Mangoes | 6 bushels | Tomatoes | 219 boxes, and |
Mushrooms | 30 „ | 1 tin | |
Milk, condensed | 1 tin | Turnip tops | 26 bags |