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Hackney 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Notices served under these regulations related to defects at 54 premises
as follows:-
Bakers 3
Butchers 6
Cafes and Restaurants 9
Canteens 6
Confectioners 3
Fishmongers 4
Greengrocers 4
Grocers and Provision Merchants 5
Public Houses 6
Stalls 8
Legal proceedings under the Food Hygiene Regulations. Legal proceedings were taken with the following results in respect of contraventions at four food premises:-
| Fines | Costs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| (a) | Used tobacco in a food room in which there was open food. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Used tobacco while handling open food. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| (b) | Failed to provide hot water to a wash-hand basin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Failed to provide hot water to a sink. | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | |
| (c) | Failed to provide a fly-proof cover to a barrel of cured herrings. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Placed unwrapped bread in cardboard box on floor of shop | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| (d) | Used tobacco in a food room in which there was open food. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
(a) The Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations, 1959 made under
Section 13 of the pood and Drugs Act, 1955 and Section 9 of the Slaughterhouses
Act, 1958. amend The Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) Regulations, 1958, by adding to
those regulations a reference to the Act under which private slaughterhouses
in the administrative county of London are licensed, and thereby provide that
the regulations shall apply in London in the same way as elsewhere in England
and Wales.
(b) The Meat (Staining and Sterilization) Regulations, 1959 provided for the
staining and sterilizing of all meat which is unfit for human consumption and
all meat from knackers' yards. They also prohibited the sale by retail of
any unfit meat unless it had been sterilized, exceptions being made only for
sales from slaughterhouses and knackers' yards to zoos, menageries and mink
farms. In March these regulations, which were to become operative on
April 1st, were revoked by the Meat (Staining and Sterilization) (Revocation)
Regulations, 1959.
FOOD HYGIENE CODES OF PRACTICE. Two Codes of Practice, one relating to
The Hygienic Transport and Handling of Meat, and the other relating to
Hygiene in the Retail Meat Trade, were issued by the Ministry of Health
and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.