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THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1932.
Part II.
Under this Act premises for the preparation or manufacture of potted, pressed, pickled
or preserved meat, fish, or other food intended for sale shall be registered.
As to meat or fish, the word " preserved " includes preparation by any process of cooking.
This is new and useful in the sanitary control of food premises. Registration has been
actively pursued, and has led to much alteration and improvement to hygienic ends in the
premises inspected for the purpose. A few of the premises were utterly unsuitable for the
work carried on in them, and it was recommended that registration be refused.
I have found that the proprietors of the many businesses very readily see the necessity
for alterations as a preliminary to registration, and the standard of cleanliness is generally
raised throughout, sometimes at large but necessary expense.
Further, the Common Council may make bye-laws for promoting sanitary and cleanly
conditions in the manufacture, preparation, storage, transport, or exposure for sale of any
article intended to be sold for food. These bye-laws would, I presume, follow the lines of
those proposed by the London County Council, who promoted the Act.
The number of premises inspected and registered are 25 and 5 respectively. Those in
which alterations were carried out before registration numbered 14.
Control of premises for the preparation, etc., of ice-cream is transferred from the 1928
Act to this Act.

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