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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
One thousand eight hundred 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 15 Cafe & General Stores 1
Groceries 84 Roadside Snack Bars 2
Butchers 41 Fishmongers 10
Greengrocer & Fruiterers 57 Fried Fish Buffets 8
Greengrocer & General Fried Fish 3
Provisions 2 Bakers and Confectioners 17
Confectionery 75 Milk & Provisions 12
Chemists 15 Public Houses 30
Restaurants & Cafes 32 Off-Licences 10
Food premises by type, registered under Section 16, Food and Drugs
Act, 1955.
The storage and sale of ice-cream 179
The manufacture for sale of ice-cream 2
The preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted,
pressed, pickled or preserved food 44
Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies (General)
Regulations, 1959 1
Number of inspections of registered food premises during
the year 302
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.
Forty-four formal samples were taken as follows: —
Milk 38 Pork Sausages 1
Polony 1 Saveloys 1
Pure Dairy Butter 1 Pork Luncheon Meat 1
Colonial Cheddar Cheese 1