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Protection of Food Supply.
During 1910, as in past years, the food supply was carefully
supervised. The work has comprised meat inspection and seizure,
registration and strict supervision of milk shops. Attention has
also been given to the sanitation of bakehouses (vide section dealing
with administration of Factory and Workshops Act) and to premises
wherein food is prepared, e.g., sausages, potted meat, &c. Other
premises in which the sale of and preparation of food in various
ways is carried on, such as ice-cream shops, butchers' shops, restaurant-kitchens,
&c., have been visited and inspected systematically
by the Council's Officers.
Unsound Food.
During 1910, two seizures of unsound food were made from
premises situate in the Borough. On April 26th, a quantity of
sausages, weighing 501bs., were seized by the Food Inspector, part
of which were reported by him to have been found in a box in the
shop and part in the ice-safe on the premises, at 38 Lavender Hill.
They were condemned by the Magistrate at the South-Western
Police Court on the same day, and the Magistrate ordered them
to be destroyed. Legal proceedings followed, and the defendant
was fined £2 and 6s. costs for exposing and depositing for sale
sausages which were unsound and unfit for human food.
In the other case, as the result of a complaint, the Food Inspector
proceeded, on the 14th June, to the premises, 260 Battersea
Park Road, and found a quantity of pieces of unsound meat in
the ice-safe, and in the shop a small quantity of sausages unfit for
human food. The unsound meat and sausages were seized by the
Inspector and taken to the South-Western Police Court, where they
were condemned by the Magistrate and ordered to be destroyed.
Summonses were taken out against the proprietors and their
manager. At the hearing of the case the proprietors proved to the
satisfaction of the Magistrate that they were not responsible, in
respect of the unsound meat, the meat having been withheld from
their Inspector. The manager was held by the Court to be the
seller and he was convicted for selling and for depositing and
exposing for sale, unsound meat and sausages, and fined £5 and
18s. costs. The Proprietors were ordered to pay £1 10s. costs for
exposing for sale unsound sausages.