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supervisors, cooks and assistant cooks had attended the course.
Arrangements are in hand for others in the School Meals Service
including part-time helpers to attend the course of lectures.
The organisation and administration of this Lecture Scheme,
involving as it does, meetings with local food trade associations,
interviews with local traders to enrol those willing to attend the
course, arranging suitable dates and times for the lectures to be
held, adjusting the syllabus to meet the requirements of the various
classes of trader and attendance at lectures on many evenings
throughout the year, has necessitated a considerable amount of
additional work by the Chief Sanitary Inspector and his staff.
It speaks well for the organisation that on no occasion since the
Scheme commenced has any alteration had to be made in the date,
time or subject of any one lecture.
Towards the close of the year arrangements were in hand for
a course of lectures to be given to the kitchen staffs of several
of the large factory canteens. A meeting had also been arranged
by the Borough Education Officer with the Head Teachers of the
Grammar Schools and Secondary Modern Schools at which I
outlined a Scheme for a short talk to school leavers on the subject
of Food Hygiene. (This scheme has now been approved and
arrangements have been completed for talks on the subject of
Food Hygiene to be given by the Sanitary Inspectors to the School
leavers at fourteen of the Grammar and Secondary Modern Schools
in the Borough).
In August, 1950, a meeting organised by the Central Council for
Health Education in connection with the Food Fair at Olympia was
held in the Town Hall, Ealing. The Mayoress (Mrs. H. Topping)
welcomed the delegates, consisting of Members, Medical Officers
of Health and Sanitary Inspectors from a number of Local
Authorities. The Chairman of the Public Health Committee
(Alderman Mrs. Leila H. Stowell) opened a discussion on the Ealing
Clean Food Scheme which aroused considerable interest, and many
delegates took part in the ensuing debate.
In March, 1950, Byelaws regarding Clean Food based on
the model approved by the Minister of Food, were adopted by the
Council. A copy of these Byelaws has been circulated to every
food trader in the Borough.
Later in the year, an illustrated booklet setting out in nontechnical
language the need for cleaner food handling and the
methods for achieving it was prepared by the Deputy Medical
Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector. The booklet
was approved by the Public Health Committee and circulated to
every food trader in the Borough. As a result of the issue of this
booklet, many new enrolments were received for our Lecture
Scheme and a number of traders have expressed their intention of
qualifying for the Council's Certificate of Hygiene.