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Grade"A" (Certified) and Grade"A" Milk.
Licences for the sale of Grade A (Certified) and Grade A milk will now be
issued by the Ministry of Health instead of the Food Controller. Milk of this
quality is now sold in the Borough.
The Order prohibits the addition of colouring matter or water to milk or
cream. This provision is a useful supplement to the powers of local authorities
under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
No breach of the Orders was discovered during the year.
Sale of Food Order, 1921.
Under the Sale of Food Order, 1921, local authorities for the purpose of the
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts were invested with the power of enforcing requirements
as to the labelling of imported produce, the composition of jam and
marmalade, and the composition of dripping, margarine and other edible fats.
Subsequently by an Order, dated December 14th, 1921, the requirements as to
the labelling of imported lard and the composition of jam, marmalade, dripping,
margarine and other edible fats were revoked. The revised Order requires that
imported meat, bacon or ham exposed for sale by retail shall be so labelled.
Also that imported eggs shall not be sold as fresh or new laid unless the word
" imported " is included in the description or the country of origin disclosed.
A communication was sent to traders in the Borough calling attention to
the Order.
No contravention of the Order has been discovered.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Excluding Measles and German Measles the notification of which ceased at the
end of 1919, the total number of notifications received during the year was 685 in
comparison with 489 in the year 1920.
Attention has had especially to be called to the non-notification of whooping
cough, primary pneumonia and ophthalmia neonatorum. A list of the notifiable
diseases has been supplied to all doctors practising in the Borough.
Smallpox.
One case of smallpox was notified. The patient was a stewardess temporarily
residing with friends in the Borough, after the arrival in port of the ship on
which she had been employed. A case of smallpox had been landed from the