[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City & R.D.C.

  • St. Albans (England). City & Rural District Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans City & R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. Registrations under Section 14— Food and Drugs Act, 1938. Thirty-seven premises are used in connection with the manu¬ facture or sale of ice-cream or preserved food, etc. Of these twenty nine are registered for the sale of ice cream and three are registered for both the manufacture and sale of ice cream. Other Food Preparing Premises. In the district there are nine bakehouses, four fish-frying premises and fourteen cafes. Of the fourteen cafes ten cater in the main for road transport workers. One Road Transport Cafe was modernised and sleeping accommodation for thirty-six men provided thereat, and in the case of another Transport Cafe new premises were erected alongside the old unsatisfactory premises and upon completion the old building was demolished. Bye-Laws under Section 15 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938. In December the Public Health Committee decided to recom¬ mend the adoption of Bye-Laws for securing the obervance of sanitary and cleanly practices and conditions in connection with the handling, wrapping and delivery of food and the sale of food in the open air. WORK UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936. Nuisances. Two hundred and twenty-four complaints of alleged nuisances were received, and of these 181 were satisfactorily dealt with by informal acticTn, leaving 43 outstanding at the end of the year. Two Abatement Notices were served under Section 93 in respect of nuisances outstanding at the beginning of the year, and both were complied with. Provision of Dust Bins. Fourteen informal notices were served on owners of buildings requiring the provision of standard-type dustbins thereat and in three cases it was found necessary to serve Statutory Notices under Section 75. Two of the Statutory Notices were complied with but in the third case the owner appealed to the Court where the requirement of the Local Authority was upheld. The question as to whether the owner or the occupier of any particular building shall be held responsible for the provision of “ a covered dustbin for the reception of house refuse of such material, size and construction as the authority may approve ” is most difficult to determine. It is the practice of the Council in each case