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Water Supply.
T he whole of the Borough is supplied with water by the Metropolitan
Water ? and apart from temporary interruption in
certain areas due to enemy action, no complaints were received as
to service or the purity of such supply.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Inspection of Food.
The Inspection of shops, stores, and factories, where food
supplies are processed or otherwise handled, has always been
unremittingly performed to ensure the highest available standard
of hygiene.
Notwithstanding the limits imposed upon these establishments
by the shortage of labour and materials and war conditions generally,
the inspectors have suceeded In securing that a relatively
high degree of cleanliness Is maintained. In addition to Civil
Defensce activities, 3,149 visits to food premises were made, and
74 improvements and structural repairs carried out.
Milk.
The ass—urance of a safe milk supply has been an important
object of the year's activities, and this has largely been attained.
Apart from Tuberculin Tested Milk, it is not possible to purchase
raw milk as from the cow. Pasteurisation and other authorised
forms of heat-treated milk have almost completed the line of defence
against milk-borne disease in this Borough. Milk purveyors on the
register number 71.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders 1936/41.
The following licences were granted during the year:-
Licences granted to sell Pasteurised Milk 19
" " " " Tuberculin Tested Milk 7
Supplementary Licences granted 19
Preserved Food Premises.
The Food & Drugs Act, 1938, provides for the registration of
premises where the preservation of food is carried out, whether bysalting,
smoking or even cooking. Such premises and their products
are under the constant supervision of the food Inspectors.
Number on Register 109
Food Decontamination.
The service formed to combat the danger of food contaminated
by poison gas has been maintained. The Food Decontamination Squads
are based at the Rectory Field, Blackheath, where additional equipment
has been supplied on the advice of the Ministry of Food.