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St Pancras 1951

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

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51
SECTION 6.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.

Table: Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1951 are given in the following table :—

Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1951 are given in the following table :—

Number of visits to—
Milkshops185
Dairies527
Ice cream premises767
Slaughterhouses19
Butchers' shops818
Prepared meat premises597
Fishmongers' shops154
Fried fish shops159
Fish curers'premises57
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,699
Market streets and places761
Railway goods yards, warehouses114
Visits re Food poisoning46
Attendances at Police Court20
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices201
Other visits918
Total7,042*

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* These visits do not include visits made for the purpose of taking samples.
Intimation Notices served 52
Statutory Notices served 6

Table: Milk Supply.

Milk Supply.

The Number of purveyors on the Register at the end of the year were :—
Dairies105
Itinerant purveyors36
For sale of milk in sealed containers only230
For sale of cream and artificial cream ...15