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contaminated, and the precautions to be taken to prevent
such contamination.
3. & 4. Catering Hygiene, showing a general lay-out of a wellequipped
kitchen attached to a canteen or restaurant, the
types of fittings which should be installed, and hygienic
methods of handling and cleansing crockery, utensils, etc.
5. Domestic Kitchen (good), showing a typical domestic kitchen,
well maintained by the housewife (for comparison with stand
No. 6).
6. Domestic Kitchen (bad), showing a kitchen equipped on exactly
similar lines to that shown on Stand No. 5, but badly
maintained.
7. & 8. Milk, illustrating the production and distribution of
clean milk, and showing models of modern pasteurising, bottle
washing, and bottle filling plants.
9 Retail Shop, showing a good type of retail shop, with special
emphasis on the protection of those foods which are specially
liable to carry infection.
10. Ice Cream, illustrating the production and distribution of ice
cream under hygienic conditions.
11. Rats and Mice. This stand has already been referred to above.
12. Work of the Public Health Department. This stand showed
some aspects of the work done by the Department in safeguarding
food—e.g., sampling of food for chemical analysis
and bacteriological examination, inspection of food and of food
premises, the investigation of food poisoning cases, etc.
The Exhibits on Stands Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 were provided and
arranged in their entirety by private firms. Those on Stands Nos. 2,
3, 4, 5 and 6 were mostly loaned by local firms and arranged by
the staff of the Public Health Department. The latter provided
and arranged nearly all the exhibits on Stand No. 12, on which
was also shown cultures of various organisms associated with food
poisoning, and a series of charts showing how food poisoning
spreads. These exhibits were loaned by the Central Public Health
Laboratory.
The net cost to the Council of the Exhibition and Film Shows,
inclusive of hire of halls, amounted to approximately £150.
The attendance at the Film Shows at the Lower Town Hall was
1,691, including the school parties. It was not possible to keep
an accurate record of the number attending the Exhibition itself,
but it is thought that this was somewhere about 500 members
of the general public and 200 school children, figures which I
think are rather disappointing, and unworthy of the very considerable
time and trouble taken in its preparation.
As already instructed by the Committee, I have conveyed
their appreciation and thanks to the authorities and traders who
contributed to the staging of the Exhibition by the loan of exhibits
or in other ways, and to the staff of the Public Health Department,
who prepared and set out the exhibits and were on duty to
answer enquiries.
G. MACDONALD,
Medical Officer of Health.