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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chigwell 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chigwell]
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All samples were taken by hand to the Counties Public Health
Laboratories, 66 Victoria Street, London, S.W.I.,within three hours
of being obtained.
Particulars of the three samples shown under G-rades II and III
were sent to the manufacturers and to the Local Authorities concerned.
The results of samples which were manufactured in the district
are again very good indeed.
(i) (a) Clean Food Campaign:
List of food premises in the district showing type of business and number belonging to the Food Hygiene Guild:-
| Restaurants, Cafes, etc., | 23 | 4 |
| Bakers | 22 | 5 |
| Greengrocers | 30 | 7 |
| Fishmongers | 13 | 5 |
| Butchers | 32 | 20 |
| Grocery, Provisions and General Stores | 54 | 30 |
| Sweet Shops | 34 | 7 |
| Dairies and Milk Shops | 15 | 3 |
| Licenced Premises | 40 | 5 |
| 263 | 86 |
(b) Number of food premises registered under Section 16 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955:-
Butchers 28
Ice Cream 102
Number of dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies
Regulations, 1959 15
(c) Number of visits made to registered premises:-
Butchers 10
Ice Cream 36
(d) Number of visits made to premises under the Food Hygiene
Regulations 393
(j) Disposal of condemned food:
Meat: Collected by Messrs. John Knight for conversion into
non-edible fat or buried at the Council's refuse tip at Chigwell.
Tinned goods: Buried at the Council's refuse tip.
Other items: Disposed of for animal food or buried.
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