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Fish fryers 9
Ice cream premises 12
Restaurants and eating houses 49
Slaughterhouses 5
Street markets 1,332
Other food premises 506
Merchandise Marks Act 52
Inspections not defined 195
Re-inspections 5
Slaughterhouses:—
Carcases inspected Nil.
Carcases condemned Nil.
Organs inspected Nil.
Organs condemned Nil.
Food surrendered 384
Foodstuffs certified for export Nil.
Food condemnation certificates issued 2,176
Slaughterhouses.
There are three licensed slaughterhouses in the Borough,
but no slaughtering was carried out at any of them during the
year.
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926.
All imported food sold or exposed for sale is required, by
Orders in Council made under the provisions of the above Act,
to bear an indication of the country of origin. No contravention
of the statutory requirements came to the notice of the
Public Health Department during the year.
By-laws for the Protection of Foods.
These by-laws were made under Section 15 of the Food and
Drugs Act, 1938 for securing the observance of sanitary and
cleanly conditions and practices in connection with the handling,
wrapping and delivery of food sold or intended for sale for
human consumption, and in connection with the sale or exposure
for sale in the open air of food intended for human consumption.
No infringements were reported during the year.
Basement Bakehouses.
Under the provisions of Section 54 (2) of the Factories Act,
1937, Local Authorities are required to carry out an examination
of every basement bakehouse in respect of which a Certificate of
Suitability has been issued under the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, in the year ending June 30th, 1939, and in every
fifth year after that year.