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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 1956

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

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SECTION 6
Inspection and Supervision of Food

Table: Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1956 are given in the following table:-

Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1956 are given in the following table:-

Number of visits to -
Milk distributors477
Ice cream premises347
Slaughterhouses8
Butchers' shops792
Prepared meat premises376
Fishmongers' shops197
Fried fish shops131
Fish curers' premises46
Other premises where food and drugs are sold1,497
Catering establishments919
Market streets and places633
Railway goods yards, warehouses92
Attendances at Police Court2
Re-inspection after Intimation Notices247
Other visits810
Total6,574*

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* These visits do not include visits made for the purpose of
taking samples.
Intimation notices served 121
Statutory notices served 10
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