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During the year one milkman was struck off the roll, his record including
23 per cent, fat abstraction in one instance.
Notices were put in the press concerning the requirements of the
Public Health (Condensed Milk) and Dried Milk Regulations.
A number of applications for registration as milk sellers were
refused. A circular was drawn up and issued to milk vendors to the
effect that the Council was concerned with the present conditions under
which milk was sold in small shops—steps to be taken after the lapse
of a reasonable interval.
Exhaustive enquiries were made as to the possibility of milk as a
vehicle in the production cf diphtheria in local cases, but in not one
single instance could milk be blamed.
OTHER FOODS.
Dr. Harbison enquired into an outbreak of six cases of acute gastroenteritis
and found that bread scraps had been eaten which had been
infected with the Bacillus Aertrycke.
The Council decided that each inspector in turn should inspect food
sold from stalls and barrows on Saturday evenings in and around the
High Street—Douglas Street area. In no case has any peccant food
been detected.
At my request, Inspector Snowdon has kindly prepared some notes
on places where food is prepared, etc. :—
Places where Food is prepared for Sale.
I have the honour to report that these premises were regularly
inspected during the year. Number of premises on the register, 126.
Number of inspections, 432. Notices served, 36. These premises
include fried fish shops and ham and beef and pork shops, sausage
makers and offal boilers, eel-pie shops, oyster bars, restaurants, coffee
shops and hotel kitchens, and any places where food is cooked or
prepared for sale to the public or intended for human consumption.
Constant attention is necessary in order to keep these various
premises in a clean and satisfactary condition.
Generally speaking, the premises have been well maintained; it
has been found necessary to serve notices in only 36 instances.
Our powers of inspection, etc., are taken from the L.C.C. (General
Powers) Act, 1900. Sec. 8 (d) says:—" Due cleanliness shall be
observed with regard to such room (or rooms used for cooking food,