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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
One thousand seven hundred and forty-nine inspections were
made of food premises other than slaughterhouses. The premises
were on the whole satisfactory with some minor adjustments necessary.
Food premises by type of business.
General Stores 23 Cafe & General Stores 2
Groceries 68 Roadside Snack Bars 2
Butchers31 Fishmongers 7
Greengrocer & Fruiterers 58 Fried Fish Buffets 3
Greengrocer & General Fried Fish 9
Provisions 4 Bakers and Confectioners 13
Confectionery69 Milk & Provisions 12
Chemists 14 Public Houses 30
Restaurants & Cafes ... 34 Off-Licences 12
Food premises by type, registered under Section 16, Food and Drugs
Act, 1955.
The storage and sale of ice-cream 152
The manufacture for sale of ice-cream 1
The preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted,
pressed, pickled or preserved food 40
Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies Regulations,
1949 1
Number of inspections of registered food premises during
the year 284
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 dye and disposed of to fat
and bone merchants.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955
Formal Samples.
Eighty-eight formal samples were taken as follows:—
Milk 41 Extra White Flour ... 1
Chewing Gum 1 Rolls 1