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(2) Premises used for the preparation or manufacture of
sausages or potted, pressed, pickled, or preserved food.
There were 42 such premises on the register at the end of
the year. No applications for registration were made during
the year.
(h) Slaughterhouses.
There are at present three licensed slaughterhouses in the
Borough. Owing to the restrictions on private slaughtering
none of these were in use during the year.
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(e) Preservatives in Food.
With regard to the 670 samples submitted to the Public
Analyst, there was no contravention of the Preservatives in Food
Regulations.
(/) Ice Cream.
At the end of the year the number of premises registered for
the manufacture, storage and sale of ice cream was as follows:—
Manufacture and sale 13
Sale and storage 95
108
During the year 114 inspections of ice cream premises were
made. Conditions at all such premises were satisfactory.
Thirty-four samples were submitted to the Methylene Blue
test and were graded as shown below:—
Grade 1 16
„ 2 5
„ 3 6
„ 4 7
(g) Food Premises.
(1) Margarine, Margarine-Cheese, Butter and Milk Blended
Butter.