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720 informal notices (i.e., intimations) relating to 449 premises
and 197 statutory notices relating to 125 premises were served during
the year.
Housing.
1. Total number of dwelling houses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 389
2. Number of dwelling houses (included in (1) above) which
were inspected and recorded under the Housing Con
solidated Regulations, 1925 and 1932 25
3. Number of dwelling houses found to be in a state so
dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation —
4. Number of dwelling houses found not to be in all respects
fit for human habitation 252
Inspection and Supervision of Food.
The amounts and varieties of foods seized or voluntarily
surrendered as unfit for human consumption during the year were :—
Tinned and bottled foods 3,549; Fish 569 lbs.; Meat and meat
products 2,494 lbs.; Fruit 230 lbs.; Confectionery (cakes, loaves,
pastries, etc.) 745; Biscuits 548 lbs.; Eggs 633; Cheese 147 lbs. ;
Butter and Margarine 49 lbs.
Care is taken by your Inspectors to ensure that no such foodstuffs
are destroyed which are capable of being salvaged, and notification of
all condemned foods is given to the Ministry of Food's Salvage Organisation
in order that they may deal therewith.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Food Sampling.
During the year, the Sanitary Inspectors took 500 Samples for
analysis by Dr. H.E. Cox, the Public Analyst.
The number certified to be adulterated was 56 or 112 per cent, of
the total number, as compared with 46 or 9 4 per cent, in 1941. Prosecutions
were instituted in 18 cases, and fines and costs amounting to
£254 1s. were imposed.
The increase in the number of adulterated samples is due to the
high percentage of soft drinks, sold under the names of Orange or
Lemon Squash, Orange, Lemon, or Lime Juice Cordials, and the like,
which were found to be unsatisfactory.
It is gratifying to note that the Public Analyst reports that the
major articles of diet which are now so completely under state control
are generally satisfactory. Thus, the milks, butters, margarines and
lards, for example, have all been found to be genuine, whereas the