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This condemned food was disposed of by burying
at the Sewage Works.
Food Hawkers. Three applications to be registered as
hawkers of food in the Friern Barnet district were approved
under the provisions of the Middlesex County Council Act
1950. At the end of the year there were 20 persons and
9 storage promises registered under the Act, as follows:-
Persons. Premises.
Fruit and vegetables 14 8
Fish 3 -
Groceries 1 -
Ice cream 2 1
Ice cream. Sixty premises are registered for the sale
of ice cream, including three premises which were approved
for this purpose during the course of the year. There are
no premises in the district registered to manufacture ice
cream.
For the most part the traders sell the ice
cream pre-packed as supplied by the manufacturers so that
handling and any risk of contamination is thereby reduced.
All the 47 samples which were submitted to
bacteriological examination were satisfactory.
Milk.
Friern Barnet is within a 'specified area' that is
to say an area in which all the milk sold must be of one
or other of the specified designations- pasteurised, sterilised
or tuberculin-tested.
Twenty-two companies or persons are registered as
distributors of milk in the district, including 11 persons
who sell modest quantities of sterilised milk in conjunction
with their main occupations as proprietors of grocery
stores. There is one dairy at which milk is pasteurised
and bottled.
The following licences were issued during the year:-
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