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The Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923.
These came into force on May 1st, 1921. All packages must be labelled in a prescribed
manner; certain percentages of milk fat are specified, as in the following table:—
Description. Percentage of Milk Fat.
Dried Full-Cream Milk 26
Dried ¾-Cream Milk 20
Dried ½-Cream Milk 14
Dried ¼-Cream Milk 8
Dried Skimmed Milk must be marked " unfit for babies," and the partly-skimmed
varieties must be marked " should not be used for babies except under medical advice."
The above regulations are to be enforced by the Borough Council.
(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.
During the year the unsound food, set out below, was voluntarily surrendered by the
owners to the Food Inspectors, and destroyed as trade refuse. On one occasion a seizure
of unsound food was made.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
Apples, 1 bushel Liver (Pig's), 1
Bananas, 1 truck Milk, 5 tins
Beef, 10 lbs. Mussels, 1 bag
„ (corned), 7 lbs. Onions, 10 cases and 20 bags
Bacon, 176 lbs. Oranges, 20 boxes
Cheeses, 1200 Peas, 95 bags
Cherries, 23 bushels Pears, 58 baskets and 3 barrels
Cucumbers (pickled), 1/3rd cask „ 3 tins
Dabs, 4 cases and 4 stone Peaches, 2 tins
Dates, 1 parcel of boxes Pigs' Carcases, etc., 9 cwt., 1 qr., 7 lbs.
Ducks, 10 Potatoes, 38 bags
Greens, 11 trucks and 56 bags Salmon, 2 tins
Grapes, 85 boxes Skate, 2 boxes and 3 cwt., 3 qrs., 7 lbs.
Haddocks, 4 cases Strawberries, 9 tubs
Herrings, 1 case Tomatoes, 10 boxes
Kidneys, 1 cwt., 2 qrs., 21 lbs. Whelks, 1 bag
Kippers, 25 boxes Whiting, 1 box
Liver (Bullock's), 1
Seized.
Beef, 4½ lbs. Steak, 3 ozs.
Mutton, 3 lbs. Veal, 2¾ lbs.
Details in regard to the work of the Food Inspectors are shown in Table No. 8, on pages
8 and 9.
Slaughter-houses.
At the end of 1924 there were 6 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 tbe Food Inspectors, who made 140 inspections in this connection in
1924.
Fried Fish and Fish Curing Premises.
In 1924 there were 83 fried fish vendors' premises in the Borough, at 4 of which fish
curing was also carried on. There were 18 fish curers' premises, including these 4. 390
visits were made by the Food Inspectors to the premises during the year.