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Hackney 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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of the proprietor of a cafe to provide a sufficient supply of hot water for use
of persons employed in the preparation of food for human consumption, and
the other to the dirty condition of a room in a butcher's shop in which food
was deposited for sale: in each of these two cases a penalty with costs
was imposed.
Milk and Dairies Regulations 1949 to 1954 Dirty milk bottles - all three
summonses for failure to ensure cleanliness of vessels used for containing milk
were successful, a penalty with costs being imposed in each case.
The following table summarizes the results of the proceedings under the
Pood and Drugs Acts:-
SECTION 13 (PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CONTAMINATION OP POOD)
Penalty and costs 13
SECTION 20 (MILK AND DAIRIES REGULATIONS, 1949-1954)
Penalty and costs 3
Shops Act, 1950 - Section 38 (Sanitary and other Arrangements in Shops)
The one summons issued under this Act related to failure to provide suitable
and sufficient means of maintaining a reasonable temperature in a shop and
resulted in the defendant being fined and ordered to pay the Council's costs,