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Fat.—Being removed from grease trap in waste pipe of sink
in a meat cooking-room, rendered down and used as cooking
fat for pastry making.
Fish.—Stored in a partitioned-off portion of fowls run.
Grapes.—Being emptied in market street on dirty asphalt road
for sorting.
Street Markets and Street Trading.
Street Markets.—Street marketing is now done on a large
and increasing scale in the Borough. A census of the stalls,
taken during December, showed there were 64 meat stalls, and
approximately 300 other stalls where food of all kinds was being
sold. 432 stalls were selling articles other than food. In addition
to these, there are a number of perambulating food hawkers
selling food all over the Borough.
The principal market thoroughfares are as follows:—
Chatsworth Road, Ridley Road, Well Street, London Fields
(Broadway), and Kingsland Road. In addition to the stalls on
the public highway in Ridley Road, 44 private sites on the railway
embankment at the side of the footpath have now been let
to stall-holders.
Street Trading.—The control by the Public Health Department
is limited to meat stalls (screening, etc., of meat) under
the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, and the seizure
of food exposed for sale, if unsound. Food exposed for sale,,
such as rabbits, fish, poultry, cooked meats, pastries, confectionery,
fruit, etc., are all as much exposed to contamination as meat
was before the Meat Order was made. Food waiting to be sold
is often stored in the gutter under the stall, and sometimes exposed
for sale on the kerb exposed to contamination by dogs, dust,
dirt and flies.