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It appears to me to be very surprising that, whilst the Public
Health Department is always willing and anxious to assist the
traders, so many offenders plead ignorance and suggest that they
should receive notification of the laws affecting them. They
do not seem to consider it their duty to make enquiries in the
proper quarters.
Notwithstanding the statements in the foregoing paragraphs,
it is a pleasure to state that, on the whole, the observance of the
Shops Acts in Wimbledon reflects credit on the persons
concerned.
As in previous years, the Home Secretary made on Order
suspending the operation of the general Early Closing Order from
19th to 24th December, inclusive. This did not, of course,
relieve occupiers of the obligation to comply with the Weekly
Half-Holiday Order in force and, as a consequence, a number of
enquiries were dealt with by the Public Health Department.
Observations were kept during the week preceding Christmas
and throughout the holiday, including Boxing Day and the
additional Bank Holiday. The result of these observations was
reported to the Local Authority in January, 1933.
Slaughter Houses and Food Inspection.—The number of
slaughter houses on the Register at the beginning of the year
was two. At one, very few animals were killed during the year,
and the requisite notices having been received prior to the
slaughtering, it was possible for complete examinations to be
made before the carcases, etc., were removed.
In the case of the second slaughter house, which had not
been used as such for four years, a detailed report was made to
the Local Authority, who decided that the entry relating to these
premises be removed from the Register.
In addition, 328 visits have been made to shops of butchers,
fishmongers and fruiterers, and other places where food is prepared
or exposed for sale, and the following were surrendered
and destroyed as trade refuse, being unfit for human food:—
30 bags sprouts Wet and rotting.
2 boxes witches Foul.
1 box herrings Stale.
1 box kippers Very foul smelling.
1 box ,, fillets Very foul smelling.
14 barrels apples Wet and rotting.
1 box halibut Foul.
38 st. beef Decomposing, through
23 st. lamb failure of
15 st. fat and dripping refrigerator.
1 box herring roes (12-lbs) Foul.
1 ham (5-lbs) Maggotty.
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