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been detailed. Other premises where food is prepared for sale, deposited
for sale or sold, include bakers' shops, greengrocery and fruit shops,
ice-cream shops, fish shops, fried fish shops, eating places, tea shops and
restaurants. As a result of these inspections 217 notices requiring sanitary
defects to be remedied were issued.
Restaurants.—A register of all restaurants is kept and 1,247 have
already been indexed. Daring the year 1,835 visits were paid.
Kitchens, pantries, messroom arrangements for staff, systems for washing
up, and general sanitary arrangements were specially observed. Defects
requiring notices were found in 176 instances, and in each case the work
was satisfactorily carried out.
Suspected Food Poisoning. —No outbreaks of food poisoning occurred
during the year. As mentioned elsewhere five suspected cases were
notified under the new provisions for notification. They proved to be
cases of slight and transient illness.
Fish Shops and Fried Fish Shops were periodically inspected. There
are 29 of these shops in the City to which the Food Inspectors paid 28
visits. Six of these are classified as restaurants, and inspections to
them are returned as restaurant inspections.
lee Cream Premises.—70 premises were on the registeron 31stDecember,
1931, as required by the London County Council (General Powers) Act.
1928. This number included all premises where ice cream was being
made, stored or sold, except ice cream factories, hotels, restaurants
and clubs. On the passing of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1932, theatres, except where ice cream is made on the
premises, were exempt from registration. Under this provision 47
addresses were removed from the register. During 1932 14 new premises
were registered for either the manufacture, storage or sale of ice cream,
making 43 premises on the register at the end of 1932. The inspectors
made 45 visits to these premises during 1932; conditions were satisfactory.
Bakehouses.—At the end of 1932 there were 60 bakehouses in the City,
of which 43 were underground.
During the year, two above-ground bakehouses were discontinued as
such. 229 visits of inspection were made, and in all instances the
cleansing which is required to be done twice a year was carried out.
Inspection of Food.—Food exposed for sale has received regular
inspection by the food inspectors, who have carried out this work daily