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(b) for the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted,
pressed, pickled, or preserved meat, fish, or other food intended for
sale; are required to be registered by the owner or occupier with
the sanitary authority.
Ice-Cream Premises.—At the end of the year 154 premises were
duly registered. These premises were inspected on 129 occasions
and insanitary conditions remedied in two instances.
Preserved Meat, etc., Premises.—At the end of the year 110
premises were on the register and were visited on 119 occasions. As
a result of such inspections insanitary conditions were detected and
remedied in nine cases, whilst 17 nuisances of a varying nature were
also remedied.
There was no instance found which necessitated the cancellation
of premises already registered.
Bakehouses.—One hundred and thirty-two inspections have been
made of the various bakehouses in the Borough, and six nuisances
found therein have been abated.
At the end of the year there were 23 factory and 16 other bakehouses on the Register, 13 of which were underground.
Food and Drugs Acts.—Altogether 443 samples have been
taken under the provisions of the Food and Drugs(Adulteration)
Act, 1928, and submitted to the Public Analyst for analysis of which
number 391 were formal samples. Seven of these samples were
certified to be not genuine, the adulterations thus being equivalent
to 1.7 per cent. of the samples taken as compared with 4.3 last year.
There was only one case calling for Police Court proceedings.
A local firm selling milk under contract to one of the London County
Council Schools was fined £1 18s. and £2 4s. costs for supplying
milk which had no less than 9 per cent of fat abstracted therefrom.
The Public Health(Preservatives, etc., in Food)
Regulations.—These Regulations were made on the 4th August,
1925, and Amending Regulations on the 10th December, 1926, and
25th June, 1927.
No contraventions of these Regulations were reported upon
during the year.
ARTIFICIAL CREAM ACT, 1929.
No application was received during the year for the registration
of premises under the above Act.