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Itinerant Vendors.
Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, provides
that Itinerant Vendors of Ice Cream shall have their names
and addresses conspicuously displayed on vehicles, &c.
A Local Authority may by resolution extend this section
to all kinds of food, and the Council have availed themselves
of this power. In 17 cases legal proceedings were taken
under this section, and fines totalling £12 12s. 6d. were
imposed; three cases were dismissed.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations 1936-1946 and
Regulation 55G of the Defence (General) Regulations,
1939.
In addition to those taken under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938, 190 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.
Thirty-five 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.
CORONERS' COURT AND
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
An increase in the number of bodies dealt with at the
Public Mortuary occurred during the year. An agreement
was made with the Borough of Chelsea that in future all
that Borough's mortuary duties should be taken over by
Hammersmith. It will be seen that Fulham and Kensington
cases are also admitted to the Council's Mortuary. Mr.
Goodman was appointed deputy to Mr. Mackay, the
Mortuary Keeper, on the 14th April, 1947.
Seven hundred and twenty-two bodies were admitted to
the Public Mortuary during the year:—