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Miscellaneous Items
Eggs 1,618 Cereals 6 pkts.
Meat & Fish Paste 9 Fruit & Vegetables 12 jars
Fish Cakes 36 Jam 1 jar
Cakes, etc. 3 Cheese 17 pkts.
Cake Mixture, etc. 85 pkts. Beverages 4 pkts.
Biscuits, etc. 1 pkt. Condiments 1 bott.
Meat Pies 3 Miscellaneous packets 122 pkts.
(d) Inspection of Food Premises
The following visits have been made to food premises during
the year, and where defects were found the requisite steps have
been taken to have them remedied.
Butchers' Shops 278
Dairies and Milk Shops 73
Ice Cream Premises 231
Fried Fish Shops 58
Stalls 85
Other Food Premises 432
RODENT CONTROL
During the year 1,696 premises were inspected, and it was
found necessary to carry out treatment in 150 of these.
One hundred and two dwelling houses and 14 premises other
than dwelling houses were treated for infestation by rats; also 24
dwelling houses and 10 other premises were treated for mice.
A total of 2,764 visits was made by the Rodent Operator.
Two maintenance treatments of the soil sewers were carried
out, the first in June and the second in November and December:
on both occasions 672 manholes were baited.
At the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries request the manholes
were inspected after the completion of baiting in the first of
these treatments, and a record of the poison takes was kept.
In 55 manholes a complete take of the poison bait was registered
and in 305 a part of the poison bait was taken.
Owing to the large number of complete poison takes recorded
in the first treatment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
requested that in the second treatment of the sewers the modified
procedure of baiting should be used. This procedure includes a
preliminary laying of 4 oz. of prebait in each manhole; where the
whole of the 4 oz. of prebait is taken 8 oz. of prebait is then
placed in the manhole. In every manhole in which all the 8 oz. is
taken, 16 oz. of poison bait is then laid.