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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
AND FOOD PREMISES
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955
Food Complaints Some 24 complaints were received from residents who
considered food which they had been sold was unfit for human consumption by
reason of its containing foreign bodies, etc. All these complaints were fully
investigated, and in appropriate cases the vendors were asked to submit written
explanations. In eight instances warning letters were sent to the vendors,
and in ten cases no action was considered necessary. Legal proceedings under
Section 2 were taken in six cases, and in one of these proceedings were also
taken under the Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949-1954.
Details of 1,501 food premises in the Borough where the following food
trades are carried on are listed in departmental records:-
Aerated water manufacture 2
Bakehouses 29
Bakehouses (Basement) 9
Bakers' shops (Sales only) 36
Bakers (Sundries manufacture) 1
Beer bottlers 2
Beer and Wines "Off" sales at grocers' shops 13
Butchers 134
Cake decoration manufacture 1
Canned soup manufacture 1
Cheese manufacture 1
Confectionery (Sweetshops) 360
Concentrated food manufacture 1
Fish curing 19
Fish (Wet) 32
Fish (Fried)17
Fruit drink manufacture 2
Greengrocery 137
Grocery and provisions 383
Ice-cream manufacture 10
Ice-cream - retail sales 400
Jam manufacture 1
Jellied eels and pies - manufacture and sale 5
Milk distributor 222
Non-brewed condiment and vinegar manufacture 2
Public houses 180
Off licences 61
Onion peeling 13
Pickle manufacture 2
Restaurants and cafes 205
Sugar grinding 1
Sweets manufacture 7
Wholesale sweet storage 1
2,290
STREET TRADING IN FOODSTUFFS. For the purpose of regulating street
trading, the majority of street traders are licensed by the Borough Council
under Section 21 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1947,
to operate from approved pitches. New licences for the sale of any foods
other than fruit and/or vegetables and wet and shell fish, are not granted
unless specified as "prepacked". The Public Health Department deals only with