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Horseflesh—Supervision of places of sale and inspection of
flesh.
Inspection of food premises generally, structure of special food
premises and bylaws relating thereto, prevention of
infection of food and drink.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations—Licensing and
bacteriological examination of graded milks.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act. 1933, and Pharmacy and Medicines
Act, 1941—Registration for sale of poisons listed in
Part II.
Preservatives in Food—Regulations and Orders
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924—Inspection of
slaughterhouses, butchers' shops, stalls and supervision of
handling, transportation and sale of meat.
Street traders in food—Inspection of market streets, stalls and
storage places.
Unsound Food—Voluntary surrender, seizure, condemnation
by magistrate; procedure for legal proceedings.
The inspection of the 1,591 premises in the Borough, at which
trading in food is carried on, has proceeded satisfactorily although
until such time as the staff of inspectors is adequate it will be
extremely difficult to carry out the detailed and repeated inspections
necessary. However, in the section of this report dealing with food
premises will be found full details of the types of food businesses,
the number of notices served and the various forms of defects found
upon inspection.
It is unfortunate that certain types of food are allowed to be
sold from stalls in open markets since adequate means of protecting
food on stalls from contamination by flies and dust is difficult or
even impossible, and 236 stallholders are selling food from pitches
licensed by the Council, including such foods as sweets, ice-cream,
cakes and bisouits, none of which is capaJble of being cleansed before
being eaten. Possibly the power of public opinion may, at some
future date, cause legislation to be passed prohibiting the sale of
all types of food from open stalls or shops which are not free from
the possibility of contamination, but the attitude of the public
generally is shown by the number of people who purchase from these
stalls and buy ice-cream cornets during the dusty season of the year
for children to hold in dirty hands and consume in the streets and
public vehicles.
The use of Outworkers' premises for work in connection with
any kind of food, such as confectionery, is also to be deprecated.
This is a very recent development in Hackney.
The vast proportion of cases of food poisoning attributable to
one of the specific groups of food poisoning organisms, that is, for