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156
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Unsound Food.
During the year three boxes and 10 skate, three boxes of
haddocks, three cases and six codfish, one box monkfish, one box
roes, one trunk of plaice, one trunk of mackerel, nine boxes of
kippers, one kit of coal fish, two barrels of sprats, 20 crabs, 12
rabbits, six score of lettuce, nine crates of bananas and one basket
of plums, were destroyed at the request of the owners and the
usual certificates granted.
In one case proceedings were taken for exposing for sale and
selling sausage rolls unfit for food, and a fine of £10 was inflicted
with 2s. costs.
Canned Foods.
In accordance with the instruction of the Council the following
report was made:—
"14 samples of canned goods have been submitted for
analysis, chiefly to ascertain if any preservative was used in
the manufacture. Five of the cans contained corned beef, and
the nine others—galantine of chicken and tongue, potted
tongue, potted beef, potted ham, minced steak, ham loaf,
roast beef, beefsteak and onions, and jellied brawn respectively.
The samples were purchased in various parts of the
Borough, and chiefly in the poorer localities. The Inspector
who purchased the samples procured the oldest specimens
possible, and that may account for the presence of tin in 10
out of the 14 samples.
"All the samples with the exception of one were derived
from the United States. The maximum amount of tin found
in the samples only amounted to about 0.14 of a grain per
1 lb., not sufficient to be injurious to health.