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REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST FOR 1940.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Herewith I have pleasure in handing you my thirtieth report
on work performed in the laboratory for your Council under the
various Acts and Regulations relating to the sale and adulteration
of Food and Drugs during the year ended 31st December, 1940.
In doing so, I deeply regret that the signature of Mr. C. A. Hackman,
F.I.C., my partner and your additional Public Analyst, will not
be found against mine at its conclusion, as he died just before
the year under review ended.
Your Council has appointed Mr. J. E. Woodhead, B.Sc.,
F.I.C., Ph.C., to act as my deputy and I feel confident that should
I, at any time, be prevented from carrying out my duties, his
long experience in the laboratory will enable him to perform these
duties in a manner which will give complete satisfaction.
Owing to war conditions and to the fact that your Food and
Drugs Inspector has been engaged upon other important national
duties, the usual number of samples (2,000) has not been submitted,
the total in the year being 1,776.
736 of these were procured formally as official samples and
1,040 as informal samples. 735 of the formal samples were milk
and one was a sample of sugar.
The total of 1,776 samples analysed during the year is made
up of :—samples of milk, 743 ; other foodstuffs, 850; drugs, 183,