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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

St Pancras 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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58
SECTION 6.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.

Table: Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's three Food Inspectors during 1949 are given in the following table:—

Particulars of the inspections and other work carried out by the Council's three Food Inspectors during 1949 are given in the following table:—

Number of visits to—
Milkshops229
Dairies585
Ice cream premises1,028
Slaughterhouses2
Butchers'shops and meat stalls728
Prepared meat premises528
Fishmongers' shops201
Fried fish shops182
Fish curers' premises88
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,448
Market streets and places855
Railway goods yards, warehouses177
Attendances at Police Court25
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices124
Other visits939
Total7,139*

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•These visits do not include visits made for the purpose of taking samples.

Table: Number of samples taken—

Number of samples taken—

Formal460
Informal695
Bacteriological349
Total1,504

Table: Unsound Foods:—

Unsound Foods:—

Surrenders696
Seizures—
Intimation Notices served56
Statutory Notices served11