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Milk Sampling.
The 154 samples of milk taken from the dairies and in the streets
during the course of delivery to customers throughout the year were
submitted to the Counties Public Health Laboratories for testing.
6 samples failed to satisfy ihe prescribed tests and the necessary followup
action was taken.
L.C.C. Children's Home, Hornchurch Road.
We have arranged to keep the Medical Officer of Health of the
L.C.C. informed of the results of testing of milk supplied to these
premises.
Ice Cream.
During the year 28 applications for registration as vendors and
18 applications for registration of premises for the storage and sale
of ice cream were granted.
At the end of the year 16 persons and premises were registered
for manufacture and 227 for the storage and/or sale of ice cream.
Our sampling was decreased from 135 last year to 82 this year.
77 proved satisfactory.
The Food Standards (Ice Cream) (Amendment) Order 1952, came
into force during the year and restored the ice cream standard to
that of pre-July 1952. In view of the interest which you have maintained
in this question the step afforded very considerable satisfaction.
Preserved Food Manufacturers.
Section 90 of the Hornchurch Urban District Council Act, 1936,
requires registration of preserved food manufacturers and premises.
At the end of the year 41 persons and 57 premises were registered for
the manufacture of preserved meat.
Essex County Council Act, 1952, Section 103.
This section which deals with the registration of hawkers of food
and their premises came into force on 1st April, 1953, and at the end
of the year 11 persons and 3 premises had been registered.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Section 34.
Two premises are registered for carrying on the business of wholesale
dealer in margarine.
Licensed Premises (Public Houses).
Within the limits of our responsibility we continued to keep
under observation the hygienic arrangements obtaining in our local
premises.
School Canteens.
Again this year we conducted in association with the Divisional
Executive Education Committee routine inspections of all the School
Canteens. This work involved in all 97 visits.