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Mitcham 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Food premises by type, registered under Section 16, Food and Drugs
Act, 1955.
The storage and sale of ice-cream 142
The manufacture for sale of ice-cream 3
The preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted,
pressed, pickled or preserved food 40
Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies Regulations,
19491
Number of inspections of registered food premises during
the year 291
All condemned food is either incinerated at the Refuse Destructor,
Garth Road, Morden, by arrangement with the Merton and Morden
Urban District Council, or treated with technical dye and disposed of
to fat and bone merchants.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955
Formal Samples.
Eighty-seven formal samples were taken as follows:—
Milk 52
Pepper 1
Cheese 1
Gravy Salt 1
Cooking Fat 1
Flip (Pineapple Flavoured) 1
Custard Pudding 1
Cheese Spread 1
Peanuts 1
Sauce 1
Marmalade 1
Ground Ginger 1
Pickle 1
Lemon Curd 1
Butter 2
Beef Sausage 1
Marzipan 1
Liquid Paraffin 1
Lard 2
Creamed Rice 1
Coconut Flavouring 1
Margarine 1
Mint Sauce 1
Aspirin 1
Vinegar 1
Confectionery 5
Pork Sausage 1
Meat Pudding 1
Suet 1
Coconut Ice 1
Informal Samples
Sixty-six informal samples were taken as follows:—