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Other Foods.
Food inspection has been a prominent feature of the
Staff's work during 1925, the following premises other
than the foregoing coming under routine inspection:—
Bakehouses 23
Restaurants and Eating-Houses 16
Ice Cream Premises 50
Fish Shops 36
Shops, Confectioners, etc. 30
Grocers, etc. 60
Sanitation of these premises have in many instances
been improved as a result of these visits, and there
is a marked improvement in the general desire of the traders
to safeguard their foodstuffs from contamination. This desire
for hygiene and protection of food stuffs is an indication of
the great advance in Public Health ideals in trade.
One notes the lack of protection in shop windows of
food stuffs such as fish, green vegetables, dates, sweets,
cakes, pastries, etc., mostly foods that are not subject to
cooking and so more liable to dangerous contamination.
It is necessary, in my opinion, that all food premises
should come under registration by the local authority, and
that such registration be refused should reasonable standards
of cleanliness and protection from contamination be not maintained.
The fact that we have escaped cases of food poisoning,
is more a matter of good fortune than of good government
of the past.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
The following is a tabulation of samples taken by the
Foods and Drugs Inspector, in Bromley, during 1925:—
No. of samples 113
Genuine 113
Adulterated Nil.