[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham City.

  • Durham (England). City Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 lb. Date 1 tin Nescafe. 19 pkts. Pastry Mixture. 13 tins Eggs. 80 Eggs. 81 Pies. 17 lb. Figs. 36 st. 9 lb. Fish 6 lb. Flour. 129 tins Fruit. 6 jars Salad Cream. 316J lb. Sausage. 15 tins Sausage. 15 tins Soup. 135 tins Vegetables. 21 lb. Yeast. 70 lb. Rabbit. 7 jars Pickles. 72 tins Fruit Juice. 6 Fowl, 1 lb. Ham. FOOD PREMISES—GENERAL. During the course of the year 221 visits were made to food premises. Food traders continue to co-operate with the Department and promptly reported all cases where they suspected foodstuffs were unsuitable for consumption. Lectures with particular reference to food hygiene were given to various organisations and a good deal of interest was shown in this part of the work of the Health Department. Exhibitions on loan from the Central Council for Health Education, some of them dealing with food hygiene, were exhibited in a local showroom window. During the year under review no notihcations of food poisoning were received. The Health Committee at its December, 1950, meeting proposed that the Council adopt byelaws made under the provisions of Section 15 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938. The byelaws referred to represent an advance on existing legislation dealing with handling, wrapping and delivery of food and sale of food in the open air and their adoption by the Council, which is subject to confirmation by the appropriate government department,should prove of help to this Department and guidance to the food trades generally in their combined efforts to secure a clean food supply.