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Inspection of Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered
for Sale.—The Inspectors keep under frequent observation all other
premises where food is prepared for or exposed for sale. Included in
this category are restaurants and premises used by provision dealers
butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers for the purposes of their trad1'''
The following Table No. 38 shows, for the past two years, the number
of inspections of premises where food was prepared for or exposed
sale.
Table No. 38.
Inspection of Premises where Food was Prepared or Sold.
Nature of Premises.
1929.
1930.
No. on
Register
No. of
Inspections.
No. on
Register
No. of
Inspec'
tions-
Cowsheds
—
—
—
—
Slaughter Houses
2
35
2
30
Milk Shops
71
100
70
128
Ice Cream Premises
27
37
27
45
Bakehouses
26
34
26
41
Restaurant Kitchens
32
35
32
47
Food Premises (other than above)
90
100
90
93
Unsound Food.—On four occasions during the year unsound food,
was surrendered and destroyed. Included in the food surrenderered
was:—6 st. 6 lbs. Fish; 684 tins Condensed Milk; 1 st. Roe; I
Kippers. No carcases were destroyed on account of tuberculosis.
Food Poisoning.—No case of food poisoning occurred during the
year.
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.—Four hundred sample
including 148 samples of milk and '20 samples of cream, were taken and
submitted for analysis during the year. These samples were investigated
by the Public Analyst to the Borougll Mr. B. H. Qerrans, F.I.C., whose
Report is set out in the appendix.
Each of the four male Sanitary Inspectors is appointed an Inspector
under the Acts. Under their direction, the taking of samples is effect
by individuals temporarily employed for the purpose, the services 0f
persons outside the Borough being frequently utilised.
The samples procured are of two kinds—formal and informal. Formal
samples are those taken strictly in conformity with the Act. Informal
samples are those taken without these strict formalities and afford
useful indication of the conditions without disclosing to the vender
that the object of purchase is analysis.
No legal proceedings are possible in respect of an informal sample
but, when adulteration is discovered, formal samples are obtained