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Registered Premises.—The Public Health (London) Act, 1936, requires the
registration of premises used for the following purposes:—
(a) The sale, manufacture or storage of ice cream or similar comm0dity;
(b) The manufacture of sausages;
(c) The preparation or manufacture of potted, pressed, pickled or preserved
meat, fish or other food.
The register of such premises is kept in five parts, and the numbers in each
part at the end of the year were as set out below:—
(а) Sale, manufacture or storage of Ice Cream 278
(b) Manufacture of Sausages 96
(c) Preparation or manufacture of Potted, Pressed, Pickled or
Preserved Meat 144
(d) Preparation or manufacture of Potted, Pressed, Pickled or
Preserved Fish 50
(e) Preparation or manufacture of Potted, Pressed, Pickled or
preserved other foods 4
The total number of inspections made was 740, and the number of notices
served was 19.
Other food Premises—As a matter of routine the food inspector made 443
visits to other food premises, including eating houses, coffee stalls, and restaurants,
and immediate action was taken in regard to any insanitary condition found. In
addition, 1,591 visits were made to shops and to stalls in the markets.
Bakehouses.—There were, at the end of the year, 34 bakehouses in the Borough
of which 33 were factory and 7 underground. The inspections numbered 95 and
5 notices were served. The conditions on the whole were satisfactory.
Section 54 of the Factories Act, 1937, provides:—
(1) That a basement bakehouse shall not be used as a bakehouse unless it was
so used at the date of the passing of this Act and a certificate of suitability had
been issued by the district council under an enactment repealed by this Act in
respect thereof, and any basement bakehouse which, for a period exceeding twelve
months, is not used as a bakehouse shall not be so used again.
(2) It shall be the duty of every district council to carry out, in the year beginning
at the date of the commencement of this Act and in every fifth succeeding
year after that year, an examination of every basement bakehouse in respect of
which a certificate of suitability has been issued, and—
(a) if as the result of the examination the Council are not satisfied that
the bakehouse is suitable for use as such as regards construction, height, light,
ventilation and any hygienic respect, they shall give notice in writing that
the certificate shall cease to have effect after the expiration of such period,