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Chingford 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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B. Proceedings under Public Health Acts :
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which notices were served requiring defects
to be remedied —
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in which defects
were remedied after service of formal
notices :
(a) by owners —
(b) by Local Authority in default of owners—
Proceedings under Sections 11 and 13 of the Housing
Act, 1936:
Undertakings accepted 3
Section E.—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION
OF FOOD
Milk Supply.
There is only one cowshed on the register for the
Chingford district; Ifche number of retail purveyors of milk is 4.
The number of visits paid to cowsheds, dairies and milkshops
was 15.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1936 and 1938.
Graded Milks. The following table shows the licences granted
during the year for the sale of milk under the special designations,
as provided by the above Order :
2 dealers' licences to sell milk as Pasteurised.
2 supplementary licences to sell milk as Pasteurised.
2 dealers' licences to sell milk as Tuberculin Tested.
2 supplementary licences to sell milk as Tuberculin Tested.
Meat and Other Foods
There is one licensed slaughterhouse and twenty-two butchers'
shops in the area ; the visits paid to these premises numbered 115.
The following list gives details of the diseased or unsound
meat and other articles found unfit for human consumption, which
were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed or used for animal
feeding purposes:—
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