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FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES
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
any description is carried on.
The total number of food premises on the register in the Borough
is 2,727 and during 1956 they were visited on 16,635 occasions.
Table IX has been drawn up to show the number of visits to various
food premises in different parts of the Borough.
In 1956, only three inspectors were 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 two Inspectors supervise other premises where food is
sold, stored, manufactured, or prepared for sale. These Inspectors
also carry out the duties required under the Pharmacy and Poisons
Act, 1933, and the Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941.
District Inspectors holding the additional certificate of Inspector
for Food and Drugs carry out the day-to-day supervision of the
catering establishments in their respective areas.
Implementation was given during 1956 to the Food Hygiene
Regulations 1955, the main provisions of which came into effect on
1st July. Reference is made to these Regulations in the Preface to
this Report.
Milk Supply
The Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949—1954
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 29 applications were received from persons
to be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the certificate
of registration was granted. Twenty-eight notices of cancellation of
registration were received. At the end of the year there were 230
persons on the register, including 29 persons with premises outside
the Borough. There were three 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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