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SECTION VI.—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, contains important
clauses dealing with food. It provides for the registration of premises for the sale
of ice cream and preserved food and gives power to authorities to refuse to register,
or to remove from the register premises which are unsuitable for the purpose. It
enables the London County Council to make by-laws for promoting sanitary and
cleanly conditions with respect to the manufacture, storage, transport or exposure for
sale of any article intended to be sold as food. It enables food offered as a prize or
for the purpose of advertisement to be dealt with in the same way as if it were
exposed or deposited for sale, and it provides for the notification of cases of food
poisoning or suspected food poisoning.
The Act received the Royal Assent in July, and the powers of the Council in this
respect were delegated to the Public Health Committee in October.
The food premises in the Borough are kept under regular observation by the food
inspector and the food stocks are periodically inspected by the district sanitary
inspectors. Two inspectors are responsible for the inspection of meat at slaughterhouses
and for the taking of samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
The following Table, No. 40, shows the food premises on the registers and the
number of inspections made in respect of each type during the year:—