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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mitcham 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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landlords and in the remaining four cases certificates were issued.
One certificate was cancelled during the year on application by landlord,
the works specified having been completed.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Two thousand and seventy-nine inspections were made of food
premises other than slaughterhouses. The premises were on the whole
satisfactory with some minor adjustments necessary.
| General Stores | 13 | Roadside Snack Bars | 2 |
| Groceries | 67 | Fishmongers | 9 |
| Butchers | 33 | Fried Fish Buffets | 8 |
| Greengrocer & Fruiterers | 52 | Fried Fish | 3 |
| Greengrocer & General Provisions | 4 | Bakers and Confectioners | 14 |
| Milk & Provisions | 11 | ||
| Confectionery | 73 | Public Houses | 30 |
| Chemists | 15 | Off-Licences | 13 |
| Restaurants & Cafes | 31 | Multiple Food Stores | 7 |
| Cafe & General Stores | 1 |
Food premises by type, registered under Section 16, Food and Drugs
Act, 1955.
The storage and sale of ice-cream 154
The manufacture for sale of ice-cream 3
The preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted,
pressed, pickled or preserved food 43
Dairies registered under the Milk and Dairies (General)
Regulations, 1959 1
Number of inspections of registered food premises during
the year 305
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.