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The following suggestions for a Clean Food Campaign were considered:—
A. Lectures to Food Traders.
B. Lectures to the Public.
C. Clean Food Exhibition.
D. Clean Food Guilds.
E. Codes of Practice.
It was decided in the first instance that lectures to the Food Traders
and their staffs would be a suitable method of opening the Campaign.
Lectures were accordingly held on the 13th and 27th November and 11th
December, 1950.
The attendances at these lectures numbered respectively 300, 150, and
100. Lower attendances at the last two lectures were, no doubt, affected
by the Christmas season.
Stimulating and informative addresses were given by Dr. Betty C.
Hobbs of the Central Public Health Laboratory Service on "Bacteriology
and Food Hygiene". On "Food and Disease" by Dr. Tyser, Deputy
Medical Officer of Health, and lastly on "Hygiene in Relation to Food
Premises and Food Handlers" by Dr. Burton, Deputy Medical Adviser,
the Central Council for Health Education.
The Chair was taken at the inaugural meeting by Miss O. Anderson,
Chairman of the Hornsey Public Health Committee, supported by
Alderman G. F. N. Norman and Mr. J. Ash, Chairman and Secretary
respectively of the Hornsey Chamber of Commerce. The Medical Officer
of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector took the Chair at the two subsequent
meetings.
The department acknowledges the active support given by the Hornsey
Chamber of Commerce in encouraging the attendances at the lectures of
those engaged in the preparation and handling of food throughout the
Borough.
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