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Unsound Pood - continued
Article Quantity
Salt 12 packets
Soup 98 tins
Suet 17 lbs.
Sugar 32 lbs.
Tea Cakes 21
Vegetables 520 tins
,, 286 lbs.
Xmas Puddings 4
Wherever possible, such food is salvaged for use either
for animal feeding stuffs, soap manufacturing or other
industrial purposes. Other condemned food is either destroyed
at the Public Health Station or removed to the Council's
Dusting Wharf for disposal with other trade refuse.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Offences relating to food and food premises
Sections 3 and 9, Pood & Drugs Act, 1938
For selling a macaroon biscuit contaminated with beetles
and maggots, the Council proceeded directly against a firm
of manufacturers outside the Borough. They were fined £2. with
one guinea costs.
For selling a loaf of bread contaminated with a cockroach,
a local bakehouse proprietor was fined £20. and five guineas costs.
Section 13, Food & Drugs Act, 1938 and
L.C.C.By-laws for the Protection of Food
Fines totalling £85 with costs of 15 guineas were imposed
in respect of various contraventions of the above at two dirty
bakehouse premises in the Borough.
HOUSING
1. Total number of dwelling-houses inspected
for housing defects (under Public Health
or Housing Acts) 2610
2. Number of dwelling-houses (included in (1)
above) which were inspected and recorded
under the Housing Consolidated Regs.1925
and 1932 (House—to-House Inspection) 116