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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Meat
There are no slaughterhouses in the Borough. All
the butchers shops are regularly inspected.
Ice Cream
Five additional premises were registered for the sale
of ice cream under Section 16 of the Food & Drugs Act, 1955.
In each case the ice cream is wrapped. The total number of
premises registered is 239•
One application for registration of premises for the
sale of ice cream was refused owing to the risk of contamination
Involved by the sale of paraffin from the same premises.
Twenty-one samples of ice cream were examined by the
Public Analyst. The average fat content was 11.26 per cent.;
the lowest fat content was 8.36 per cent. Bacteriological
examination was made of 49 samples, of which 9 were unsatisfactory
and appropriate action was taken.
Cooked Foods
Fifty-eight premises are registered for the preparation
or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed, pickled or
preserved food, comprising the following types of premises
grocers, provisions, butchers, delicatessen, factory, fried
fish, cafe
Food Sampling
(a) Bacteriological examination. This service is
undertaken by the Central Public Health Laboratory. I am
greatly Indebted to the Director of the Laboratory for unfailing
cooperation and help.
Details of the samples submitted for examination can
be found in the Statistical Summary.
(b) Chemical analysis. Mr. Eric Voelcker, A.R.C.S.,
F.R.I.C., Public Analyst to the Borough, has examined and
reported upon 501 samples which can be classified under the
following broad headings?-