Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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SECTION 9, prohibits the publication of any advertisement relating to
abortion, (Prosecutions for contravention of these sections cannot be instituted
without the consent of the Attorney General or Solicitor General).
SECTION 11, (Disclosure of composition of medicines) provides that no
person shall -
(a) sell by retail any article consisting of or comprising a substance
recommended as a medicine; or
(b) supply any such article as a sample for the purpose of inducing
persons to buy by retail the substance of which it consists or which
it comprises;
unless there is written so as to be clearly legible on the article or a label
affixed thereto,
(i) the appropriate designation of the substance so recommended, or of
each of the active constituents thereof, or of each of the ingredients
of which it has been compounded; and
(ii) in a case where the appropriate designation of each of the active
constituents or the ingredients is written as aforesaid, the appropriate
quantitative particulars of the constituents or ingredients:
This subsection does not apply to any article made up and supplied for the
use of a particular person, being an article prescribed by reference to the
needs of that person.
A summary of the work of sanitary inspection in connection with food
premises is as follows:-
Bakehouse inspections 361
Registered Food Premises:-
Inspections of ice cream premises 1,089
Inspections of other registered premises (preserved food, etc.) 608
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924-1948:-
Inspections of butchers' shops 732
Inspections of butchers' stores 568
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949-1954:-
Inspections of dairies 261
Other pood Premises, Inspections of:-
Artificial cream dealers' premises 12
Butter factories 4
Confectioners' 372
Fried fish shops 222
Food factories 224
Greengrocers' 274
Markets 1,476
Provision stores (excluding registered premises shown above) 723
Public Houses 321
Restaurants and cafes 942
Street traders' food stores 371
Wet fish shops 304
Wholesale margarine dealers' premises 8
Miscellaneous 275
Notices served (all types of food premises) 209
Sampling: -
Formal samples 402
Graded Milks 660
Ice cream (for bacteriological examination) 92
Informal samples 300
Food complaints investigated 49
Pood Poisoning investigations 38