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With the improved facilities now provided generally in
food premises, the onus for ensuring personal cleanliness and
hygienic food handling falls more upon the individual food
handler, and it may be that rather sharper reminders of these
responsibilities will have to be given in the future.
Food premises in the district consist of the following:—
Catering establishments including factory canteens
and school kitchens 120
Grocery and provision shops and "general stores" 66
Greengrocers' shops 35
Butchers' shops 27
Bakers' shops 14
Milk shops 8
Fishmongers' shops 15
Sweet and confectionery shops 61
Food Preparing Premises
There was one new registration during the year.
The register contained the addresses of 31 premises which
had been registered under the Act for the preservation, etc., of
food as follows:—
Premises used for the manufacture of sausages, pies,
etc. 12
Premises used for the cooking of fish 10
Premises used for the cooking of bacon 9
Hawkers of Foodstuffs
Under the provisions of Section 11 of the Middlesex
County Council Act, 1950, persons selling foodstuffs from any
vehicle, etc., who are not the occupiers of an open shop for the
sale of foodstuffs, require to be registered with the local authority
and the food stores at which the foodstuffs intended for
sale are stored are also required to be registered.
A good deal of attention had to be given to these fool
traders to ensure a reasonable hygienic standard in their
methods and storage arrangements. Six new hawkers of foodstuffs
were registered.