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I am hopeful that in the very near future several local firms
will have fulfilled the Council's very stringent conditions governing
the issue of this Certificate and will have qualified for its award.
At the request of a number of local food traders, I prepared a
notice for exhibition on food premises requesting customers not
to bring their dogs on to premises where food is prepared or sold.
By the end of the year 131 traders had applied for this notice to
exhibit in their shops.
Notwithstanding a shortage on the Sanitary Inspectors' staff
during the greater part of the year occasioned by our inability
to fill vacancies caused by the retirement of two Sanitary Inspectors,
a considerable amount of work has been carried out in the inspection
of food premises. Many improvements have been effected and in
several cases difficulties encountered over the issue of Building
Licences have been overcome. It is anticipated that during 1951,
with a full staff, the work of inspection and improvement of food
premises will be accelerated.
I am confident that the education of food trade employees
in Clean Food handling together with the routine and systematic
inspection of food premises are the two principal means by which
a successful Clean Food Campaign may be achieved.
The Medical Officer of Health
has asked if, in the interests of
hyyiene. customers would be so
good as not to briny dogs into
any shop which deals in the
sale of food.