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SECTION 16 (Registration of premises manufacture and sale of ice cream
and of sausages, etc.). This section provides that no premises shall be
used for the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale of ice-cream, or
the storage of ice cream intended for sale, or the preparation or manufacture
of sausages or potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food intended for sale
unless they are registered under this section for that purpose by the local
authority.
ICE CREAM New applications to the number of sixteen for the sale of ice
cream were approved. One application was refused, following the Council s
practice not to register for this purpose premises in which Greengrocery is
sold. At the end of the year the premises of 442 retailers and twelve
manufacturers were registered. The 126 samples of ice cream submitted to the
Public Health Laboratory Service for Methylene Blue Test, were reported on as
follows:-
Grade 1-82
Grade 2-27
Grade 3-6
Grade 4-11
PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES OR POTTED PRESSED PICKLED OR
PRESERVED FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE There was one new application for the
preservation of confectionery bakery and at the end of the year the following
162 premises were registered:-
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages 115
Fish Curing 16
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels 5
Manufacture of canned soups 1
Fish Frying 17
Onion Peeling 5
Food Vending Machines (Sausages) 3
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SECTION 23 (Prevention of spread of disease by ice cream). Every
manufacturer of, or dealer in ice-cream shall, upon the occurrence of certain
diseases among the persons living or working in or about the premises on which
the ice-cream is manufactured, stored or sold, forthwith give notice thereof to
the Medical Officer of Health If the Medical Officer of Health has reasonable
ground for suspecting that any ice cream or substance intended for use in the
manufacture of ice cream is likely to cause any disease communicable to human
beings, he may give notice to the person in charge thereof that until further
notice, the ice cream or substance in question, is not to be used for human
consumption. No action was necessary under this section.
SECTION 24 (Sale of horseflesh). No person shall sell, or offer or expose
for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any horseflesh for
human consumption elsewhere than in premises, or in a stall vehicle or place,
over or on which a notice in legible letters stating that horseflesh is sold
there is displayed in a conspicuous position. No person shall supply horse
flesh for human consumption to a purchaser who has not asked to be supplied
with horseflesh. No contraventions of this section were discovered.
SECTION 26 (Cases of food poisoning to be notified). Under this section
a registered medical practitioner on becoming aware or suspecting that a person
whom he is attending is suffering from food poisoning, shall forthwith notify
same to the Medical Officer of Health of the district.