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As in previous years, 500 copies of the booklet Better Health were distributed
monthly, and the large poster sites in the Borough were used for displaying posters
obtained from the Central Council for Health Education. Arrangements were also
made with the local food offices to display crown posters, and in co-operation with
the Borough Librarian and the local Pood Executive Officer a largo number
of leaflets and bookmarks on health subjects, particularly with regard to diphtheria
immunisation, were distributed throughout the year.
The Council have again made an annual contribution of £20 to the funds of the
Central Council for Health Education.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale.
All premises in the Borough where food is manufactured, stored or sold arc
regularly visited by the Sanitary Inspectors. All the district Sanitary Inspectors
are concerned with the inspection of food in shops and in the streets from stalls and
barrows, and routine inspections of bakehouses, butchers' shops and fried fish shops
are carried out. There are five food inspectors whose duties, in addition to the
inspection of all carcases at the Plumstead Abattoir, are concerned with the sampling
of food, the supervision of ice cream and milk processing plants and the inspection
of markets and street traders. Two other specialist food inspectors regularly inspect
restaurants and works canteens, licensed premises and milk shops and dairies.
The total number of inspections of food premises during the year amounted
to 2,255. In addition to canteens there are some 595 restaurants and eating houses
in the Borough. The number of premises registered for the preparation or manufacture
of sausages and potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food at the end of
the year was 212.
The following is a summary of the registered food premises in the Borough
at the end of 1951 with the number of inspections carried out in the year:—

Milk Supply.
There are 85 registered distributors of milk in the Borough and five dairy
premises. The Council has also approved the registration of a further 27 distributors
of milk who sell milk in the Borough from premises outside the Borough.
One hundred and fifty-three dealer's licences and 08 supplementary licences were
issued under the provisions of the Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1949,
authorising the use of special designations.
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