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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

Merton 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton]

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Table: Food and Food Premises.

Food and Food Premises.

Milk processing dairies113
Milk vendors138
Ice-cream premises233
Food factories28
Food vehicles383
School kitchens138
Restaurant kitchens482
Licensed premises65
Bakehouses67
Butchers253
Wet and fried fish shops47
Other food shops1,165
Meat inspection455
Unsound food383
Sampling: Food and Drugs335
Sampling: Milk190
Sampling: Ice-cream176
Sampling: water211
Food hygiene swabs107
4,969
Clean Air Act, 1956.
Smoke control areas11,681
Other Clean Air Act visits505
Smoke observations335
Air pollution recording apparatus1,014
13,535
Factories Act, 1961.
Factories (powered)351
Factories (non-powered)31
Factories (building sites)19
Outworkers102
Workplaces24527
Infectious Diseases.
I.D. enquiries403
I.D. contacts22
Food poisoning11
Specimens98
Disinfection7541
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963
O.S.R. general inspection offices269
O.S.R. general inspection shops552
O.S.R. general inspection wholesale/warehouse7
O.S.R. general inspection catering21
O.S.R. general inspection canteens10
O.S.R. all other visits2,364
3,223
Insects, Pests, Rodents.
Rats and mice control13,702
Insect control335
Pigeon control155
Verminous premises38
14,230