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FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES
There are four Inspectors engaged wholly 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 other premises where food is sold, stored, manufactured,
or prepared for sale. Onethird 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.
In November the Council agreed with my proposal that the district
Sanitary Inspectors holding the additional certificate of Inspector for
Food and Drugs should take over the daytoday supervision of the
catering establishments in their respective areas.
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 uptodate. 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 any description is carried on.
The total number of food premises on the register in the Borough
is 2,716 and during 1953 they were visited on 40,796 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 24 applications have been received from persons
to be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the certificate
of registration was granted. Fifteen notices of cancellation of
registration have been received. At the end of the year there were
207 persons on the register, including 17 persons with premises
outside the Borough. 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.
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