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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Number of inspections | 1,985 | |
| Notices served for defects | 104 | |
| Defects | 137 | |
| Premises on Register at 31st December, 1947 | 109 | |
| Number of samples obtained for bacteriological examination or Methylene Blue Test | 89 | |
| Satisfactory | 52 | |
| Indifferent | 16 | |
| Unsatisfactory | 21 | |
| Number of inspections made | 265 | |
The Ice Cream (Heat Treatment) Regulations, 1947, came into operation
on the 1st May, 1947. The Regulations broadly require that,
subject to certain qualifications, the ingredients of ice cream shall be
heat treated after being mixed and that the mixture shall then be cooled
until the freezing process is begun. Ice cream must not be sold unless
it has been kept at a temperature of 28° F. Although the Regulations
do not impose a bacteriological standard of cleanliness for ice cream the
Minister draws attention to a form of methylene blue test and suggests
certain provisional grades into which the results of these tests should be
placed.
| On Register at 31st December, 1947 | 78 Premises. | 163 Persons. |
| New Dairies or Dairymen registered during the year | - | 8 |
| Number of inspections made | ... | 362 |
| Number of samples obtained | 13 |
| Number of sellers of Part II poisons | 173 |
Preserved Meat, etc., Premises.
Number of premises on Register at 31st December, 1947 90
| Number of complaints | 1,109 | ||
| Number of visits | 19,212 | ||
| Number of rodents destroyed | 10,237 | ||
| Black rats | 4,157 | ||
| Brown rats | 2,392 | ||
| Mice | 3,688 |
Amount recovered for disinfestation work executed by
the Council's ratcatchers in cases of default by owners
or occupiers £236 3s,