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ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL ACT, 1933
MANUFACTURE, STORAGE AND SALE OF ICE CREAM
The continued popularity of ice-cream encouraged more traders to
consider selling it and 23 new applications were received for registration,
of these 20 were accordingly registered.
Five of the applicants were interviewed by the Public Health Committee
who refused registration in three cases. The remaining two were granted.
In one case the applicant made it clear that a vendor's licence only was
required, and in respect of the other, the Committee granted registration
subject to certain safeguards which the vendor had agreed to in writing.
In considering the cases interviewed, the Committee took into consideration
the nature of the main business, and registration was refused in the three
cases mentioned above because the businesses were greengrocers who could
not adequately guarantee reasonable separation of the two types of commodity
(ice-cream and vegetables).
As can be noted, a considerable amount of work is carried out in
sampling ice-cream and because of the number of unsatisfactory sample
obtained from one cafe, the Committee decided to interview the proprietor
with a view to cancelling the registration. At that time the management
of the cafe was changing hands. Consequently, the new proprietor was
interviewed and told of the Committee's concern over these samples. The
new proprietor undertook to rectify matters and he was accordingly given
an opportunity to improve conditions at the shop.
The Public Health Committee is to be congratulated upon the interest
taken over the control of the sale, etc., of ice-cream and for the support given
to their officers.
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