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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Surbiton 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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ICE CREAM.
Premises have been registered by the Corporation under
Section 14, Food & Drugs Act, 1938, as under
For manufacture, storage and sale 8
For manufacture, storage and sale
hut manufacture to he limited to
iced lollies 16
For storage and sale, hut not
manufacture 116
Certificates of Registration
granted during year 27
During the year 235 visits were made to premises and vehicles and 111 samples were taken for laboratory examination for bacterial cleanliness, details being as follows:-
| Ice Cream | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade | I | Coliforms | absent | 87 | 89.1% | 94.05% |
| ,, | present | 3 | ||||
| Grade | II | ,, | absent | 3 | ||
| ,, | present | 2 | ||||
| Grade | III | ,, | absent | 3 | ||
| ,, | present | 3 | 5.94% | |||
| 101 | ||||||
Iced Lollies
Grade I Coliforms absent 10
111
In no case was Faecal Coli found
The Public Health Laboratory Service advises that it is
unwise to pay too much attention to the result of any one
sample. Judgment should be based rather on a series of samples.
It is suggested that it would be reasonable to expect about
30 per cent of samples throughout the year to fall into Grade I,
80 per cent into Grades 1 or 2, not more than 20 per cent into
Grade 3, and none into Grade 4.
The results shewn above indicate that the satisfactory
standard referred to in my last report is being maintained.
Each retailer from whom a sample was taken was supplied
with a copy of the laboratory report; where manufacture took
place outside the Borough copies of reports whether good or
otherwise were also sent to the Sanitary inspector for the
District concerned for his information.
No ice cream is now manufactured within the Borough.
A few retailers make their own iced lollies.
32.