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The following details of hutted camps are given:-
Gunsite hutments 124
Huts for homeless 50
Thames Road conversions 54
The huts house a population of 795 persons,
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
FOOD HYGIENE. The year has seen remarkable achievements
in the restoration of war damaged food promises, Plate glass
windows have again become normal and in general the shops have
regained their pre-war appearance.
It is pleasing to record that refrigerators have now
become accepted as a standard fitment to any establishment where
meat and other similar foods are stored for sale.
Progress has also been made in fostering the co-operation
of trade operatives and managements to raise the standard of
cleanliness in food premises. Regular and frequent visits by
your sanitary inspectors, who keep constant contact with all
concerned, strengthen this desire for co-operation on both sides,
FOOD POISONING. An increase in the number of notified
cases of food poisoning is recorded. In all there were 39 cases
which, upon investigation, were found to arise mainly from cockles
which had been taken from an area under the control of the Port of
London Authority. In investigating the matter 27 samples of
cockles, obtained from local retailers, were submitted for
bacteriological examination at the Central Public Health
laboratories, who were unable to indicate any specific causative
agent.
SAMPLING. During the year 313 samples were submitted to
chemical analysis, details of which are set out in the Appendix.
The following five samples were reported to be unsatisfactory
and were dealt with as shown overleaf.
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