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Surrender.
Any person having for the purpose of sale food which is
diseased, unsound, or unfit for human consumption, can, under
Section 180(8) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936,
surrender it to the Council for destruction or other suitable
method of disposal.

In addition to the foregoing, the following amounts of
foods were also condemned:- 102 shell eggs; 1½ gallons ice
cream; 2 bags swedes; 1 bag cauliflowers; ½ hag carrots; 5
bags greens; 7 bags potatoes; and 4,223 tins and jars of
assorted food stuffs.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
At the end of the year the number of sellers of Part II
Poisons (other than registered Pharmacists) on the list
maintained by the Council was 139. Of this number 6 were
new registrations during the year.
Water Supply.
In Kensington the water supply is almost entirely
provided by the Metropolitan Water Board. There are, however,
three premises which obtain water from artesian and deep
wells. Samples of water were taken both by the Council and
the owners for bacteriological and chemical examination.
Results showed the water was suitable for drinking and
domestic purposes.
Ice Cream.
General prohibition of the use of milk and milk products
as ingredients in the manufacture of ice cream continued
to operate during 1949. The Ministry of Food, however,
arranged for increased allocations of sugar and fat to ice
cream manufacturers, willing to give an undertaking that the
fat content of their product would hot fall below 2½%. It
was emphasised by the Ministry that this was not to be
interpreted as the introduction of 2½% fat staridard, but was
a step taken to ensure that the additional supplies available
should go only to those manufacturers who were prepared to
put them to good use.
In order to safeguard this, results of the chemical
analyses of samples of ice cream were forwarded to the
Ministry of Food.