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22
Cooking of Hams and other Meats 39
Fish Frying 12
Sausage Manufacture 55
Preparation of Jellied Eels 2
Boiling Shell Fish 2
Total 110
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950: Section 11
Registration of Hawkers
Section 11 of the Middlesex County Council Act,1950, requires
the registration of all food hawkers and their storage premises.
10 new applications were investigated by the sanitary inspectors
in 1952 and found to be satisfactory. 14 registrations were cancelled
where it was found that the businesses had been discontinued
The following is a summary of the registered hawkers and
their storage premises at the 31st December, 1952:-
Articles
Number of persons
registered for sale
Number of registered
storage premises
Fruit and
Vegetables
110
106
Shell Fish
14
9
Fish
7
7
Ice Cream
2
2
Peanuts
2
2
Light Refreshments
(Mobile Canteen)
2
2
Total
137
128
Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards
Five premises are licensed as slaughterhouses under Section
57 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938 Regular slaughtering is
carried on at only one of these and this establishment deals
solely with the slaughter of horses for human consumption.
The number of horses slaughtered in the slaughterhouse during
the past five years is as follows:-
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
3,189 2,889 2,750 2,856 2,454