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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1941.
FOOD AND DRUGS ADULTERATION ACT, 1928.
1,350 samples were procured for analysis during the year—
138 samples of milk, 1,015 other foodstuffs and 197 were drugs.
17 samples were found to be adulterated. Four were samples
of milk, one of butter, three of milk substitute powder, one of
egg squares, one of egg powder, one of pearl barley, one of sausages,
one of cream cheese, one of orange substitute and one of chocolate.
174 consignments of foodstuffs of all kinds suspected to be
unsound were examined at the request of the owners. After the
articles had been rendered unsaleable the owners were granted a
certificate to this effect.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933
AND PHARMACY AND MEDICINES ACT, 1941.
Applications were received from 252 persons for their names
to be entered on the Council's Register of sellers of poisons included
in Part II. of the Poisons List. 508 inspections under these Acts
were made by the Food Inspectors.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There were 1,317 factories and workshops on the Register
at the end of 1941, and in addition 507 persons were receiving
work to be done in their own homes.
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST.
Owing to war conditions only 1,350 samples were submitted,
seven being formal and 1,343 informal. All the formal samples
were milk. The samples submitted for analysis consisted of
138 milk ; 1,015 other foodstuffs and 197 drugs. Four of the
samples of milk were found to be adulterated. The average
composition of the milk analysed during the year was:—total
milk solids, 12.20, milk fat, 3.49, non-fatty solids, 8.71.
Eleven samples of other foodstuffs were found to be adulterated