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41 cases Sauce, 53 lbs. Evaporated Milk, 1 sack Mussels, 604 tins of Meat, 0 Ducks.
Articles of Food Seized and Condemned.
19 lbs. Red Currants—Vendor prosecuted and fined £4 and £1 1s. costs.
Sale of Food Order.—For exposing for sale imported meat not labelled
as such a butcher was prosecuted and fined £3 and two guineas costs.
Certificates to enable articles of food to be exported to the United
States and Canada were granted in 10 instances.
Serving Drinks in Public Bars in glasses not properly cleansed.—The
Public Health Committee considered a complaint that barmaids, especially
during rush hours, did not cleanse glasses which had been used before
serving another customer, the practice being to dip the glass into a
bowl of water without wiping or cleansing it. It would be a better
arrangement if there were an apparatus giving a jet of water which would
cleanse the glass inside and out without loss of time. The Committee
found they had no legal power to deal with the matter, but directed that
the attention of the Licensed Victuallers' Association be drawn to the
complaint. The Association expressed their desire to co-operate and
sent a copy of the communication to each of their members.
The Wrapping of Bread.—We have in former Reports drawn attention
to the risk of contamination to which bread is exposed while being delivered.
During the last year attention has been again called to the subject and
the Public Health Committee passed a resolution that bread should be
properly wrapped before leaving the bakehouse. They were informed
that this is already the practice in more than 30 districts in the North of
England and that it has been found to be a paying proposition. It is
claimed that apart from the advantage to the public of being supplied
with a clean article of food, there is less loss of evaporation when a loaf is
placed in a wax paper cover, the bread keeps longer, and there is practically
no stale or unsaleable bread. It would get rid of the objectionable practice
of exchanging stale loaves for fresh ones, and a further result is claimed
that where wrapping is employed there is little need for baking during the
night.