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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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ICE CREAM.
Premises have been registered by the Corporation
under Section 1 6, Pood & Drugs Act, 1955? as under:-
For manufacture, storage and sale 8
For manufacture, storage and sale
hut manufacture to he limited to
iced lollies 13
For storage and sale hut not
manufa c tur e 136
During the year 16 applications for registration were
received (including 8 changes of occupier) and were approved.
| Ice Cream. Grade 1 | 90.7% | ||
| Grade 2 | 1 | ||
| Grade 3 | 2 | ||
| Grade4 | Nil | ||
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| Iced Lollies Grade 1 | 2 | ||
The Public Health Laboratory Service advises that owing
to the numerous factors governing the hygienic quality
of ice-cream it is unwise to pay too much attention to the
bacteriological results on any single sample. Judgment
should be based rather on a series of samples. It is
suggested that over a six-monthly period, 50 per cent of
a vendor's samples should fall into Grade 1, 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 the last two reports is being
maintained.
No ice cream is now manufactured within the Borough,
but a few retailers make their own iced lollies.
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