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Bakehouses.—At the end of 1926, there were 70 bakehouses in the
City, of which 48 were underground. During the year 157 visits of
inspection were made, and in all instances the cleansing which is
required to be done twice a year was carried out:
Inspection of Food.—Food exposed for sale has received regular
inspection by the food inspectors, who have carried out this work daily
including Sundays. The following table shows the nature and amount
of food voluntarily surrendered or submitted.

Beef, 7 lbs., Bacon, lbs., Ducks, 5, Scallops, 1 cwt. 64 lbs., Fish
(various), 2 cwt. 78 lbs.
Certificates enabling the export of certain articles of food to
Canada were granted in nine instances.
Condensed Milk.—A quantity of unlabelled tins of machine-skimmed
condensed milk were seized by one of the Food Inspectors, who visited
at the request of the vendor. The vendor had reported that he had
certain tins in his possession which appeared to be unsound. These were
surrendered to the Inspector, who found a large number of tins on which
small portions of the original labels were adhering, which led one to
suppose that the consignment originally came from Holland. Meanwhile
the vendor had been busily labelling others with labels of which he had a
large stock, which purported that the milk came from Denmark. The
Danish Consul took the matter up with a view to taking proceedings
under the Merchandise Marks Act.
It was also discovered that about 20,000 tins of the same kind of milk
were deposited at premises in Stepney. Samples of this machine-skimmed
milk proved genuine on analysis.