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London County Council 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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72 Annual Report of the London County Council, 1913.
Places where food is prepared for sale.
Section 43 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, gives powers for controlling
the conditions under which ice cream is prepared for sale. The provisions of this section are now widely
applied and nearly all the reports give account of the action taken.
Ice-cream
premises.

Table: The following table summarises the information thus available and shows the number of these premises in each metropolitan borough and other particulars:—

The following table summarises the information thus available and shows the number of these premises in each metropolitan borough and other particulars:—

Metropolitan borough.Number of places.No. of inspections, 1913.No. of notices, 1913.No. of prosecutions, 1913.
On register at end of 1912.Added in 1913.Removed in 1913.On register at end of 1913.
City of London215269-
Battersea181332618857521-
Bermondsey120-61141486-
Bethnal Green103146111263—-
Camberwell1636221474498-
Chelsea281227391-
Deptford132221613821981
c Finsbury106-110510820-
Fulham140291331526-
Greenwich1251321117124--
Hackney1908-19825721-
Hammersmith1705223199388282
Hampstead80438112613-
Holborn3522354163--
Islington22442272398322-
Kensington171331918555618-
Lambeth--
Lewisham--
Paddington1101041161221—
Poplar1241202685-
St. Marylebone10413121051187—
S St. Pancras4914912892
Shoreditch93729815519-
Southwark120611417244—
Stepney20138823142964—
Stoke Newington38—
Wandsworth322512734652851-
Westminster, City of17418029851
Woolwich89714821648—

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Other
premises
where food is
prepared for
sale.
Further powers for the sanitary control of premises upon which food is prepared for sale are
conferred upon sanitary authorities by section 8 of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act of 1908, which provides against contamination of the food by urinals, waterclosets, ashpits, etc..,
requires that the water supply shall be free from contamination by any watercloset, prohibits drain
inlets within the building and the deposit of refuse beyond that which is required for the purposes
of the trade, and, moreover, requires due cleanliness to be observed in regard to the room or shop
and the apparatus and utensils and persons employed in it. A considerable amount of work has been
done in London under these powers, various conditions having been dealt with in their administration.

Table: The annual reports of medical officers of health supply information as to the number of premise inspected and the number of inspections as shown in the following table:—

The annual reports of medical officers of health supply information as to the number of premise inspected and the number of inspections as shown in the following table:—

Metropolitan borough.Premises used for the preparation and sale of food.(a)Number of inspections.Metropolitan borough.Premises used for the preparation and sale of food. (a)Number of inspections.
City of London899-Kensington-1,316
Battersea104-Lambeth248-
Bermondsey1,1037,424 (b)Lewisham4665
Bethnal Green2121,042Paddington359739
Camberwell189103Poplar283908
Chelsea6973St. Marylebone262522
Deptford121134St. Pancras175220
Finsbury228228Shoreditch193-
Fulham—-Southwark1,2812,233
Greenwich119254Stepney418828
Hackney131134Stoke Newington28-
Hammersmith186-Wandsworth617963
Hampstead394615Westminster, City of4,464quarterly
Holborn3972,095Woolwich-120
Islington687320

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(а) Other than bakehouses, milkshops, slaughterhouses, and ice-cream premises. In some cases the figures
relate to restaurant-kitchens only.
(b) Including visits for the purpose of sampling under the Food and Drugs Act.