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Food and Food Premises.
Milk Supply.
There are 282 registered milk premises in the Borough,
one of them being also a cow shed. All the premises have been
inspected regularly, the Food Inspectors making 986 visits during
the year.
The bulk of the milk sold retail within the Borough is sent
out in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies, and its
quality throughout the year has been good. The average fat
content shown by the analysis of 839 samples was 3.51, compared
with 3.47 in 1928.
The milk utensils and barrows used for the delivery of
milk have also been inspected regularly in the street, and as
will be seen by Table XLIV, 839 samples of milk have been
procured and analysed.
It is interesting to note the remarks of the Public Analyst
in his report for the year under review in which he states
"Perhaps the most satisfactory feature of this Report is the
low percentage of adulteration returned in milk samples examined,
being as it is 1.6 as compared with 7.3 in 1909, and
in no case was preservative, colouring matter or dirt detected
in any sample."
Meat.
Six private slaughterhouses are now in use in the Borough.
The Food Inspectors made 700 visits during the year to these
premises. They were present on almost every occasion when
slaughtering took place and inspected 10,748 carcases (comprising
636 oxen, 1,994 pigs and 8,118 sheep) of which eight
whole carcases and 648 organs, etc., were found to be diseased
or unsound and were destroyed for the following reasons:—
Whole Carcases:—
Oxen 1 whole carcase and
Offal—Tuberculosis.
Pigs 5 whole carcases and
Offal—Tuberculosis.
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