[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 20. Inspection of Food Premises 1956 1957 1958 No. of visits paid to food premises 95 294 182 No. of food rooms inspected 199 592 475 No. of offences noted under Food Hygiene Regulations 313 545 541 No. of such offences out¬ standing at end of year 228 197 278 No. of offences against the food handling byelaws 15 16 14 No. of byelaw offences out¬ standing at end of year 11 2 3 Towards the end of the year inspections were made for the first time under the new Food Hygiene Regulations of all licensed premises in the Borough. They had previously been given routine inspection under food handling byelaws, and whilst on earlier standards the general standard of hygiene was satisfactory, it became necessary to require additional appliances and structural alterations at many premises. As the survey was not undertaken until late in the year there was little time in which to remedy the defects before the end of 1958 and, as a result the total number of offences shown in Table 20 as outstanding was higher then in the previous yerr. Sale of Food in the Open Air As required by section 76(1) of the 'est Riding County Council (General Powers) Act, 1951 > registers *ro kept of persons hawking food in the Borough, end of hawkers’ storage premises. Table 21 gives particulars of the changes which took place during the year under review, and of the position at the end of the year. Table.21. Registr tion of Food Hawkers and Storage Premises Particulars of changes Hawkers Storage Premises No. on Register at 1st January 83 6 No. in respect of which new applications were made 5 0 No. in respect of which application was refused 0 0 No. added to register 5 0 No. of registrations revoked - (a) following offences 0 0 (b) Cersed to tr^de 0 0 No. on register at 31st December 88 6
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