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CLEAN FOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Five meetings of the Clean Food Advisory Committee were held
during 1952. The main subject under consideration was the formation
of a Clean Food Guild.
It was decided to hold a general meeting, to which all food traders
and employees were to be invited, the meeting to be presided over by
the Mayor.
This meeting was held in October. There appeared to be complete
unanimity amongst all food traders regarding the need for the observance
of hygiene in the handling of food, and a genuine desire to comply
with the Codes of Practice which had been adopted by the Clean Food
Advisory Committee in 1951. At the same time, most traders expressed
themselves as not in favour of the formation of a Clean Food
Guild.
The Clean Food Advisory Committee subsequently decided, in view
of this lack of support, to postpone further consideration of the matter
for a period of six months.
HEATING APPLIANCES (FIREGUARDS) ACT 1952.
This Act received the Royal Assent on 1st August, 1952, although
it does not come into force until a date to be fixed by the Secretary of
State. By the Act, the sale or letting of certain heating appliances
without an effective fireguard is prohibited.
The Wimbledon Borough Council have authorised the Sanitary
Inspectors to carry out the duties, imposed by the Act, of inspecting
and testing appliances required to be fitted with guards, and inspecting
appliances kept on any premises for the purpose of sale or letting.
Duties in connexion with the foregoing will start as soon as the
Regulations, following the coming into operation of the Act, are received
from the Home Office.
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