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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 128 premises were
duly registered. These premises were inspected on 140 occasions
and insanitary conditions remedied in three instances.
Preserved Meat, etc., Premises.—At the end of the year 142
premises were on the register and were visited on 325 occasions. As
a result of such inspections insanitary conditions were detected and
remedied in fourteen cases.
There was no instance found which necessitated the cancellation
of premises already registered.
Bakehouses.—Two hundred and nine inspections have been
made of the various bakehouses in the Borough, and seventy-five
nuisances found therein have been abated.
At the end of the year there were 23 factory and 14 other
bakehouses on the Register, 12 of which were underground.
Food and Drugs Acts.—Altogether 449 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 177 were formal samples. Nine of these samples were
certified to be not genuine, the adulteration thus being equivalent to
5.1 per cent, of the samples taken as compared with 6.4 last year.
Police Court proceedings were instituted in 5 instances. In two
cases the Vendor was fined £5 5s. with £1 1s. costs; of the remaining
three, 2 were dismissed upon payment of £1 costs by defendant,
with regard to the other, the defendant pleaded warranty and the
case was dismissed without costs against Council.
Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations.
—Of the total samples submitted to the Public Analyst, there were
only 6 infringements reportod upon, 2 each in respect of Pepper
and Sausages and Trinidad Sugar, and Pudding Sugar, 1 each.
Proceedings were instituted against the Vendors of the samples of
sugar.
There were 2 informal samples of Sausages, which contained
250 parts per million sulphur dioxide (a formal sample was
subsequently taken in this case), and 130 parts per million of sulphur
dioxide, respectively, which would have been permissable under the
Regulations, had a notice declaring the existence of such preservative
been exhibited in the shop. The Vendor of the latter sample
was duly warned.