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Ice Cream Premises.
There are 80 such registered in the Borough in accordance with the London
County Council (General Powers) Act of 1902. They have been regularly
inspected, and in three instances proceedings were instituted in respect of
offences against the Act. As the following statement shews, all these were
successful:—
Offence. Result.
Selling ice cream in Great Titchfield
Street, on two occasions, from a barrow not
marked with the name and address of the
manufacturer Fined 10/- and 2/- costs for each offence
Selling ice cream in Carlisle Street from
a barrow not marked with the name and
address of the manufacturer Fined 5/- and 2/- costs
Manufacturing and storing ice cream in
an improper place at No. 119, Princess Street Fined £2 and 2/-costs
Butter, Margarine, etc.
The number of persons registered as dealers in and manufacturers of
margarine under the Margarine Act, 1887, Sec. 9, and the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1889, Sec. 7 (4), is seven, and of wholesale dealers in butter and
milk blended butter, under the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907, three.
Two names were added during the year, and the various premises have
been regularly inspected.
The matter of sampling of butter, margarine, etc., is dealt with under the
heading "Sale of Food and Drugs Acts."
Restaurants, Food Stalls, etc.
Premises on which food is prepared for sale exist in the Borough to the
number of 163 (restaurant and dining room kitchens 55, hotel kitchens 18, coffee
shops, pastrycooks and tea-rooms 90). Each of these was visited at least once
during the year by the special Meat and Food Inspector. A number of
notices were served chiefly for breaches of Section 8 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, which deals with the question of sanitation
in such places.
The food stalls in the market streets—Bell Street, Great Titchfield Street,
etc.—have been regularly inspected, and during the year a proper system of
inspection on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings was inaugurated.
Offensive Trades.
Only two premises in which trades classed as offensive are carried on are
situated in St. Marylebone. In both instances tripe-boiling is the industry
followed, and in neither, though frequently visited, was any cause for complaint
found.