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(b) OTHER FOODS.
The Food Inspectors have kept under regular inspection food exposed or deposited
for sale in slaughter-houses, shops (especially butchers', cooked meat, and fishmongers' shops),
stalls, and market places.
On 39 occasions during the year unsound food, as set out below, has been voluntarily
surrendered by the owners to the Food Inspectors, and destroyed as trade refuse. No seizures
of unsound food have been made.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
Army Rations, 1 tin
Beans, baked, 7 tins
Beef, cooked, ½ cwt. and 1 tin
„ salt, 5 cwt.
Beef and Mutton, 28 lbs.
Cherries, 1 tin
Dog fish, 1 stone
Fillets (smoked), 2 boxes
Greengages, 7 baskets
Haddocks, 3 boxes and 1 case
Herrings, 21 barrels and 1 box
Herring Roe, 10 boxes
Eggs, ½ case
Kidney (Bullock's), 1
Liver (Bullocks'), 2
Liver (Sheep's), 2
Milk (Condensed), 489 tins
Pears, 2 barrels
Plaice, 3 boxes and 2 cwt.
Pigs' Heads, 3
Pig's mesentery, 1
Pork, 1 carcase and 37 stone
Rabbits, 23
Pilchards, 54 tins
Sardines, 38 tins
Skate, 1 case and 1 cwt., 1 stone, 25 lbs.
Salmon, 2 tins
Trout (Salmon), 80 lbs.
Tomatoes, 104 boxes
Yeast, 10 cwt.
Details in regard to the work of the Food Inspectors are shown in Table No. 8, on pages
96 and 97.
Slaughter-houses.
At the end of 1923 there were 7 licensed slaughter-houses (private) in the Borough.
Structurally they do not conform to a high standard of excellence. These are kept under
periodical inspection by the Food Inspectors, who made 158 inspections in this connection in
1923.
Fried Fish and Fish Curing Premises.
In 1923 there were 81 fried fish vendors' premises in the Borough, at 3 of which fish
curing was also carried on. There were 17 fish curers' premises, including these 3. 390
visits were made by the Food Inspectors to these premises during the year.
Ice-Cream Premises.
In 1923, 294 ice-cream premises were known to the department; 360 visits were paid
to them by the Food Inspectors during the year.
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens.
At the end of 1923 there were 162 bakehouses on the register, including 42 factory
bakehouses. Thirty-nine of these bakehouses were not in use. 120 of the 162 were underground
bakehouses, of which 35 were factory bakehouses, and 32 not in use.
At the end of the year 403 restaurant kitchens were on the register.
Bakehouses and restaurant kitchens are visited by the Factory and Workshop Inspector
and further particulars in regard to the work will be found on pages 63 to 65.