View report page

Food and Drugs and Bacteriological Examinations
As in former years, the Food and Drugs samples were submitted to
Messrs. Bernard Dyer and Partners Ltd. (Dr. J. Hp Hamence, F.R.I.C., and
P. S. Hall, Esq., F.R.I.C.), of 20 Eastcheap, London, E.C.3, and samples
for bacteriological examination to the Counties Public Health Laboratories
(Roy C. Hoather, Esq., B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.H., Gordon Miles,
Esq., B.Sc., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.H., R. F. Rackham, Esq., B.Sc., M.R.S.H.,
& E. English, Esq., B.Pharm., B.Sc., F.R.I.C.,) of Thresh House, Verulam
Street, Gray's Inn Road, W.C.1. The Department is appreciative of the
help given by these two laboratories during the year.
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations 1960.
In July the Metropolitan Police reported finding a driver of a van
in which ice cream was sold was smoking and the floor of which was covered
with cigarette ash. The vehicle contained uncovered wafers and cornets.
The Town Clerk gave as his opinion that the driver was not handling
food at the time of the incident nor was he in a food room.
Section 103 of the Essex County Council Act, 1952 says that "No
person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any food from or upon a
vehicle etc., unless he is registered by the local authority". The
vehicle and driver were there to sell ice cream but no action was taken
because the evidence disclosed no offence as there was no sale or offer
or exposure for sale at the time.
The food premises in the District may be classified as follows
Confectioners (cakes, pastries) 31
Grocers 80
Greengrocers 37
Butchers 33
Confectioners and Tobacconists 67
Restaurants and cafes 41
Fishmongers 15
Dairies and Milkshops 10
Miscellaneous 65
of these
133 are registered for the storage and sale of ice cream;
61 are registered for the preparation of preserved foods.
Disposal of unsound foodstuffs
The unsound food condemned by the Public Health Inspectors is
destroyed in the incinerator at Chingford.
-23-