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The following statement indicates the position existing at the end of
1944:—
1. (a) Total number of applications received 397
(6) Number of applications cancelled or withdrawn 12
(c) Number of applications for consideration :—
(i) From local residents 316
(ii) From other persons 69
385
2. Number of families accommodated 33
3. Number of applications outstanding:—
(a) From local residents :
(i) Prima facie worthy of consideration 206
(ii) Apparently unworthy of consideration 81
287
(b) From other persons :
(i) Prima facie worthy of consideration 9
(ii) Apparently unworthy of consideration 56
— 65
352
Inspection and Supervision of Food.
This question has received the closest attention and the following
list shows the amounts and varieties of foodstuffs seized or voluntarily
surrendered as unfit for human consumption during the year:—
Tinned and bottled foods, 3,733; fish, 1,368 lbs.; meat and meat
products, 1,361 lbs.; fruit and vegetables, 3,995 lbs.; confectionery
(cakes, loaves, pastries, etc.), 2,558; eggs, 60;
cheese, 101 lbs.; sugar, 58 lbs.; flour, 1,972 lbs.; other foods,
2,227 lbs.
The above list includes those foodstuffs destroyed or damaged by
enemy action.
Nothing was destroyed that could be salvaged either by reconstitution
for human food at Ministry of Food Depots or for use as animal feedingstuffs
or fertilisers.
Food Premises and Restaurant Sanitation.
The number of inspections carried out was 1,035.
Limitations of labour and materials have restricted the Department's
activities in connection with existing restaurants and catering establishments.
Special attention has, however, been paid to the premises of all
new applicants to the Food Executive Officer for catering licences, and
in the event of any such premises being structurally or hygienically
unsuitable, or otherwise not conforming with the requisites of Section 13
of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938 (precautions to be taken against contamination
of food), the Food Executive Officer is informed accordingly
and the licence is not issued until the necessary work is executed to the
satisfaction of the Sanitary Authority.
Seventeen applications to the Food Executive Officer for new licences
were referred to me of which six applicants did not proceed further after
being informed of the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act.
Owing to the danger to the public of the spread of diseases of the
alimentary type commonly conveyed by food, i.e., diseases of the enteric
type (typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, dysentery, food poisoning and
intestinal parasitism), strong representation was made to the owners
regarding the insanitary and unsatisfactory state of a restaurant at which
the following conditions existed : The w.c. and ablutionary