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the opinion that opportunity should be taken, in connection with any new
legislation, to provide for the review of certificates issued in respect of underground
bakehouses. These certificates were allowed by virtue of the exceptions
contained in Section 101 of the Factories and Workshops Act, 1901, and it is
considered that steps should be taken gradually to ensure the application of
modern standards to the continued certification of underground bakehouses,
which at present can continue on a certificate issued 36 years ago.
"The Standing Joint Committee have approved of the forwarding of suggestions
to the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, that provision should be
included in the Bill that all certificates at present in existence should expire
at a given date, when application for renewal must be made to the local sanitary
authority, and that after the year 1950 the exemption in respect of present
underground bakehouses should terminate.
"Your Committee have received a report on this matter from the Medical
Officer of Health, in which he suggests that the Standing Joint Committee be
asked to take steps to secure that, within six months of the coming into force
of the Bill, all bakehouses should require to be re-licensed, such licensing to be
annual, and that the year 1940 be substituted for 1950 as the year in which
the exemption in respect of present underground bakehouses should terminate.
In regard to the second suggestion, he pointed out that, having regard to the
improving standard deemed desirable, the existing underground bakehouses
(which have been in existence since before 1901) will be in a relatively worse
condition in 1950 as compared with the then modern standards.
Your Committee
Recommend—That this Council do approve of the suggestions of the Medical
Officer of Health, as set out above, and that representations be made to the
Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee accordingly."
Registration of Food Premises.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1936, section 187, requires the registration
with the sanitary authority of certain premises which are used or are proposed to
be used for the sale or manufacture of certain food stuffs.
The number of premises on the register at the end of 1936 under this section was:—
(i) Ice cream, etc. 190
(ii) Other food 99
The number of inspections of premises at which food is prepared or sold, made
by each inspector during the year, is shown in the table on page 135.
The following foodstuffs were surrendered and destroyed during the year:
1 ton 13 cwts. savoys; 12 cwts. sheeps' heads; 7 cwts. cod; 48 fowls; 2 cwts. 2 qrs.
17 lb. jellied veal; 18 lb. corned beef; 2 cwts. haddocks; 3 stones skates; 37 lb.
(about) boneless ham; 117 tins silds; 5 stones (about) rock salmon.