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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OP POOD.
Milk,
Three hundred and six samples of milk, were submitted to
to the public analyst, and ten were found to be adulterated.
At the end of the 3 year there were on the register
purveyors registered for the sale of milk in sealed containers,
179 dairymen, and 138 dairies and milkshops.
Public Health (Meat) 1924.
Sixty-two slaughterhouse inspections "were made durihg
the year.
Unsound Food.
No unsound food was seized during the year, but a
large amount was voluntarily surrendered.
Adulteration of Food.
Five- hundred and ninety-nine formal samples of food
were taken, of which 15; or were adulterated, Poor
hundred and two informal samples were taken, of which four, or
1%, were adulterated.
INFECTIOUS DISEASEc
The following table shows the number of cases of
infectious disease notified in the various age periods and
wards, the number admitted to hospital, and the total deaths
from these diseases in 1939:-
12