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Woolwich 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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32
SECTION IV.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, requires the registration
of premises used for the following purposes :—
(a) The sale, manufacture or storage of ice cream or similar commodity ;
(b) The manufacture of sausages;
(c) The preparation or manufacture of potted, pressed, pickled, or preserved
meat, fish or other food.
So far as ice cream is concerned, power to register premises was given in the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928, but no power to refuse to
register or to remove from the register was given. The new Act, however, gives
this power, not only in respect of ice cream premises, but in respect of all others
mentioned therein.
It is quite clear that any premises in which the following articles are manufactured,
prepared, or canned, are registrable under the Act, and it may be that
there are others :—
Sausages and allied products.—Large and small, with or without skins—
Saveloys. Haggis.
Black Puddings. Rissoles.
White Puddings. Bladders of Lard.
Meat.—Potted, pressed, pickled, preserved—
Potted Meat or Head, Faggots.
Tongues, etc. Cooked Meats, Sheep's Head, etc., Pork.
Meat Pastes. Dripping.
Meat Extracts. Brisket (Pressed).
Brawn. Meat Pies, Pork Pies.
Meat and Pork (Pressed). Trotters (Pickled).
Meat and Pork (Pickled).
Hams foiled, cooked, smoked or cured or otherwise preserved.
Bacon
Fish.—Potted, pressed, pickled, preserved—
Pastes—various. Pickled or Soused Fish.
Cured or Dried Fish. Canned Fish.
Eel Pies and Jellied Eels. Fried Fish.
Other Foods.—Potted, pressed, pickled, preserved—
Canned Soups containing Meat, Hors d'ceuvres, if containing Meat or Fish.