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Catering Establishments.
There are 784 premises of this type in the Borough. During the year, 1,661 inspections were made
and 12 notices served.
Details of the premises concerned appear in Table 20, page 38.
Fried Fish Shops and Fish Curers.
Ten premises are used by fried fish sellers and one by a fish curer. Twenty-two inspections of fried
fish shops and twenty-four inspections of the fish curer's premises were made. Conditions generally
were found to be satisfactory and no notices were served.
Wholesale and Retail Foodshops.
Because of new requirements under the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955, the number (44) of informal
notices served during the year exceeded the figure (7) for 1955. Nevertheless, it was generally observed
during the 1,540 inspections of food shops that there was an increasing interest in food hygiene.
Details of types of businesses are given in Table 20, page 38.
Food Stalls.
Apart from isolated pitches, most of the 110 food stalls in the Borough are sited in street markets,
namely, Church Street, Bell Street, Aybrook Street and Great Titchfield Street. During the year,
287 inspections were made of the markets.
Bakehouses.
Most of the fourteen bakehouses maintained good standards and the comparatively few unsatisfactory
conditions found were dealt with informally; 66 inspections were made.
Horseflesh.
Four visits were paid to the only shop in the Borough selling horseflesh for human food.
Slaughter of Animals.
There are in the Borough no slaughterhouses where animals are killed for human consumption
but there is a knacker's yard situated in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. This
establishment is licensed by the Council for the slaughter of animals to provide food for the carnivores
in the menagerie. Two inspections were made during the year.
St. Marylebone Clean Food Association.
The Executive Committee of the Association (Chairman: Mr. H. Hale—until his death in December;
Hon. Secretary: Mr. W. S. Moss; Hon. Treasurer: Mr. D. W. Moeran) have kindly provided
the following information which is extracted from their report for the year 1956/57:—
" Chairmanship of the Executive Committee.
We have to record with profound regret the death, early in December, of our Chairman, Mr.
H. A. Hale. He had been a member of the Association since its inception and Chairman of the
Executive Committee since 1954. He had shown great interest in our work and was always keen
to further our aims. In his passing, the Association has suffered a great loss.
Since December our Vice-Chairman, Councillor H. C. Garrard, has acted in his stead and we
would like to thank him for so willingly and ably presiding over our affairs.
Membership of the Association.
The total number of members of the Association is now 168, seven applications for membership
having been granted during the year under review, three of which were in respect of premises taken
over by new proprietors.
Publicity.
We acknowledge with thanks the notice which the local press have given to our Association from
time to time. We are also grateful to the Borough Council for allowing the continued use on
envelopes of a small stick-on label bearing the slogan ' Insist on Clean Food.'