Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.
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 London | 215 | 269 | - | ||||
Battersea | 181 | 33 | 26 | 188 | 575 | 21 | - |
Bermondsey | 120 | - | 6 | 114 | 148 | 6 | - |
Bethnal Green | 103 | 14 | 6 | 111 | 263 | — | - |
Camberwell | 163 | 6 | 22 | 147 | 449 | 8 | - |
Chelsea | 28 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 39 | 1 | - |
Deptford | 132 | 22 | 16 | 138 | 219 | 8 | 1 |
c Finsbury | 106 | - | 1 | 105 | 108 | 20 | - |
Fulham | 140 | 2 | 9 | 133 | 152 | 6 | - |
Greenwich | 125 | 13 | 21 | 117 | 124 | - | - |
Hackney | 190 | 8 | - | 198 | 257 | 21 | - |
Hammersmith | 170 | 52 | 23 | 199 | 388 | 28 | 2 |
Hampstead | 80 | 4 | 3 | 81 | 126 | 13 | - |
Holborn | 35 | 22 | 3 | 54 | 163 | - | - |
Islington | 224 | 42 | 27 | 239 | 83 | 22 | - |
Kensington | 171 | 33 | 19 | 185 | 556 | 18 | - |
Lambeth | - | - | |||||
Lewisham | - | - | |||||
Paddington | 110 | 10 | 4 | 116 | 122 | 1 | — |
Poplar | 124 | 120 | 268 | 5 | - | ||
St. Marylebone | 104 | 13 | 12 | 105 | 118 | 7 | — |
491 | 491 | 289 | 2 | ||||
Shoreditch | 93 | 7 | 2 | 98 | 155 | 19 | - |
Southwark | 120 | 6 | 114 | 172 | 44 | — | |
Stepney | 201 | 38 | 8 | 231 | 429 | 64 | — |
Stoke Newington | 38 | — | |||||
Wandsworth | 322 | 51 | 27 | 346 | 528 | 51 | - |
Westminster, City of | 174 | 180 | 298 | 51 | |||
Woolwich | 89 | 7 | 14 | 82 | 164 | 8 | — |
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.
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 London | 899 | - | Kensington | - | 1,316 |
Battersea | 104 | - | Lambeth | 248 | - |
Bermondsey | 1,103 | 7,424 (b) | Lewisham | 46 | 65 |
Bethnal Green | 212 | 1,042 | Paddington | 359 | 739 |
Camberwell | 189 | 103 | Poplar | 283 | 908 |
Chelsea | 69 | 73 | St. Marylebone | 262 | 522 |
Deptford | 121 | 134 | St. Pancras | 175 | 220 |
Finsbury | 228 | 228 | Shoreditch | 193 | - |
Fulham | — | - | Southwark | 1,281 | 2,233 |
Greenwich | 119 | 254 | Stepney | 418 | 828 |
Hackney | 131 | 134 | Stoke Newington | 28 | - |
Hammersmith | 186 | - | Wandsworth | 617 | 963 |
Hampstead | 394 | 615 | Westminster, City of | 4,464 | quarterly |
Holborn | 397 | 2,095 | Woolwich | - | 120 |
Islington | 687 | 320 |
(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.