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Persons cleansed (including
3,497 children) 4,275
Premises disinfected 1,957
Articles disinfected 33,268
Mortuary—
Bodies received 592
P.M. examinations 416
Inquests 122
Legal proceedings to enforce various requirements or for the
very of penalties incurred by the breach of statutory requirements
were taken in 37 instances; fines were inflicted amounting
to £10 17s. 6d., and costs to £17.
Factories and Homework.—The number of factories in which
mechanical means are used decreased by 14 to 275, and of nonmechanical
factories by 24 to 178. Inspections of these premises
numbered 938. The number of homeworkers decreased by 2 to
Bakehouses numbered 49 at the end of the year, two being
closed during the year. The number of underground bakehouses
remained at 14. Four of the 49 premises do not rank as factories
since only the proprietor works on the premises. 64 inspections
of bakehouses were made during 1940.
protection of the Food Supply.—1,200 samples (of which 450
were formally taken) were analysed by the Public Analyst. Of
these 12 (5 informal) were certified to be adulterated, which gives
Percentage of adulteration of 1.0.
731 of the samples were of milk, the percentage of adulteration
among which was 0.7. There were 104 dairies (milk shops) registered
at the end of the year. 46 licences to sell tuberculin tested
milk and 63 for pasteurised milk were valid during 1940. 250
Premises (excluding street stalls) were on the register for the
Manufacture, storage or sale of ice cream, and 165 for the sale
Preserved foods and 65 as fish shops. Street stalls from which
food was sold numbered 129.