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FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES
There are four Inspectors engaged in the supervision of the
food supply. One of them is the Food and Drugs Inspector of
the Borough who is occupied in procuring samples of food and
drugs for analysis by the Public Analyst and the Public Health
Laboratory and the supervision of dairy premises.
The other three Inspectors, are designated Food Inspectors
and supervise all other premises where food is sold, stored, manufactured
or prepared for sale. One third of the Borough is
allocated to each Inspector. The three Inspectors also carry out
the duties required under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933,
and the Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941.
With the object of ensuring that all food businesses are
supervised systematically, a register of all premises where a food
business is carried on has been compiled and is kept up-to-date.
This Register includes not only those premises which are subject to
some form of legal control, but also all other premises in which a
food business of ?.ny description is carried on.
The total number of food premises on the register in the
Borough is 2,685 and during 1951 they were visited on 37,087
occasions. Table IX has been drawn up to show the number of
visits to various food premises in different^ parts of the Borough.
Milk Supply
The Milk and Dairies Regulations. 1949
These Regulations came into force on 1st October, 1949, and
require local authorities to keep a register of all persons carrying
on the trade of distributor in their district and of all premises
within their district which are used as dairies, not being dairy
farms.
During the year 21 applications have been received from
persons to be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the
certificate of registration was granted. Seventeen notices of cancellation
of registration have been received. At the end of the
year there were 194 persons on the register, including 18 persons
with premises outside the Borough. Two applications for registration
of premises as dairies and one notice of cancellation of
registration were received during the year. There were 31 dairies
on the register at the end of the year.
The bulk of the milk sold by retail within the Borough is sent
out in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies and its quality
is good.