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ICE CREAM PREMISES
Promises on Register at 31st December, 1945. 142
PRESERVED MEAT ETC. PREMISES
Premises on Register at.31st December, 1945 86
MILK (SPECIE DESIGNATIONS) ORDER. 1936 & 1938
Licences issued 40

The brevity of those war time reports with summaries of statistics gives
no indication of the rapid developing scope and complexity of food administration
Before the war legal standards of quality were applicable only to milk, butter,
margarine and spirits. Since the Ministry of Food was instituted standards of
ingredients have been applied to an increased range of food and drinks as for
example salad cream, mayonnaise, liquid coffee essence, etc. Under Defence
(Sale of Food) Regulations, 1943, which for the time being supersedes Section 6
of the Food and Drugs Act, the correct labelling of articles of food and drink is
required. Heavy fines for the offence of "misleading labels" may be imposed.
Thin partly explains the enormous increase in amount of the fines in 1945£660.10.0d.,,
as compared with £46.19.Od. in 1944, the other reason being penalty
imposed for the illegal sale of horseflesh.
NUISANCE FROM PIGEONS - i
Complaints: 17; Pigeons destroyed: 228.
DISINFECTION
Rooms: 350, Articles: 65,382. Articles washed: 15,652.
Articles destroyed: 1,598. Books disinfected: 276. Vehicles: 11.
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
The City Council decided to resume its pre-war activities regarding the
recording and measuring data of atmospheric pollution and authorised the settings
up of the necessary apparatus at three sites in the City for the purpose. One oil
the Public Analysts has undertaken the analysis of certain of the gases and rainwater.