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food hygiene with staff and management and to show what steps are necessary to
comply with the regulations and to improve hygiene generally.
Ceilings renewed or repaired 2
Wall plaster renewed or repaired 3
Walls and ceilings cleansed 5
Floors repaired 2
Yards and Gullies cleansed 1
Dustbins renewed 7
Hot water supplies provided 2
Handbasins provided 2
Accumulations removed 1
Fittings and utensils cleansed or renewed 3
Sinks renewed 2
Fixtures non-absorbent 2
SHOPS ACT. 1950.
No formal action has been necessary under the provisions of this Act.
Informal action has secured the provision of various notices required to be
displayed regarding closing hours in "mixed" shops. Several tours of the shops
on Sundays found a few mixed shops infringing the law. These were reported to
the Council and warnings were given.
ICE CREAM.
All samples of ice-cream are taken to the Central Public Laboratory, Colindale,
for testing by the Methylene Blue Test. This is merely indicative and provides
no legal standard: the Public Health Laboratory Service suggest that owing to the
numerous factors governing the hygienic quality of icerere am it is unwise to pay too
much attention to the bacteriological results on any single sample, judgement being
based rather on a series of samples. It is suggested as desirable that at least
50^2 should fall into Grade I, 80% into Grades I or II, not more than 20% into
Grade III and none into Grade IV.
Eighteen samples taken from retailers in the district were all returned as
Grade I.
There is one company registered for the manufacture of ice-cream, and a policy
of concentrating on the control of production rather than retailing has been
followed by the department. One hundred and twenty-four samples of ice-cream
were taken at various stages in the manufacturing process, with the following
results, the percentages being given in parentheses:-