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EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF
BODIES.
During the year four Licences were granted by the
Secretary of State for the exhumation and removal of
bodies from graves in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery,
Harrow Road, but in one case the removal was not effected.
FOOD SUPPLIES.
Unsound Food.
A quantity of unsound food was voluntarily surrendered
during the year of which a large proportion was salvaged
for use as animal and chicken food or recovery of fats for
trade purposes other than for human consumption.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
800 samples of various food and drugs were submitted
to the Public Analyst during the year by the Council's
Sampling Officer for analysis; 70 were found to be inferior
and 13 were adulterated. Legal proceedings were taken in
respect of 5 adulterated samples, and penalties and costs
amounting to £25 2s. 0d. were imposed.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) REGULATIONS,
1936-1945, AND REGULATION 55G OF
THE DEFENCE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS,
1939.
In addition to those taken under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938, 142 samples of milk sold as " Pasteurised,"
" Tuberculin Tested Pasteurised," " Tuberculin Tested,"
" Sterilised " and " Heat Treated " were taken under
the above Regulations and submitted for bacteriological
examination, the phosphatase test and the methylene blue
test. 27 of these samples were taken direct from milk
processing plants using the high temperature short-time
method of pasteurisation and which are installed and
licensed in the Borough.