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Acton 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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(Heat Treatment etc.,) Regulations, 1947/1952. There are 122
premises where ice-cream is not manufactured, but where the commodity
is sold in the main from pre-packed stocks. During the year
97 samples were taken, 54 of ice-cream manufactured in the
Borough, and 43 from shops or itinerant vendors trading in icecream
manufactured outside the Borough.
The grading of samples noted below and expressed in percentages indicates the very good standard of ice-creams manufactured in the Borough.
| Grade I | 88.9% |
| Grade II | 7.4% |
| Grade III | 3.7% |
| Grade IV | 0.0% |
Premises, plant, processing and storage conditions are well and
satisfactorily maintained.
MEAT INSPECTION AT SLAUGHTERHOUSES
The amount of meat inspection at the two slaughterhouses in
the Borough has grown during the year, and with decontrol of
meat supplies in July the necessary work of meat inspection was
stepped up considerably. Some 360 hours of overtime inspection
duty were carried out at the slaughterhouse of T. Wall & Sons
Ltd., Atlas Road, the time of this particular duty being reduced
during the year as a result of night slaughtering and the introduction
of shift work by the inspectors. At Western Abattoir also decontrol
made again possible local slaughtering of food animals with resultant
overtime in inspection duty of some 325 hours.