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As regards "Certified" Milk and "Grade A (Tuberculin tested)" Milk, in those cases
in which the latter milk is bottled at the farm, a scheme has been devised by the Ministry of
Health, under which the work of sampling is divided between the Local Authorities in whose
area the milk is sold.
Samples of the grades above mentioned are to be taken on receipt of instructions from the
Ministry, and no samples of these Grades were required to be taken in this Borough during the
year.
Artificial Cream Act, 1929.
The above Act, which camc into force on June 1st, 1929, requires the registration of all
premises in which Artificial Cream is manufactured, sold, or exposed for sale for human
consumption. This requirement does not apply to premises where Artificial Cream is not
supplied otherwise than in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it is delivered
to those premises, nor to its manufacture solely for domestic purposes, nor to its manufacture
on any premises for use in the preparation on those premises of some other article of food.
The number of premises on the register at the end of the year was one (wholesale) and
three (retail).
Artificial Cream is defined in the Act as an article of food resembling Cream and
containing no ingredient which is not derived from milk, except water. In actual practice it is
manufactured from Dried Milk, Butter and Water in suitable proportions, and the term
lie-constituted Cream would appear to be more appropriate than the word Artificial.
(b) MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
The two special Food Inspectors have kept under regular observation food exposed or
deposited for sale in slaughter-houses, butchers' shops, cooked meat shops, fishmongers'
premises, stalls, market places, etc.
The undermentioned unsound or diseased food was surrendered by the owners for destruction
or to be dealt with as trade refuse.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
Surrendered.
Bananas, 35 crates Livers, Pigs', 6
Cauliflowers, 8 mats Mackerel, 1 box
Chicken, 1 in tin Pears, 48 4-lb. boxes
Cod, filleted, 2 boxes Plaice, 1 box
Hams, cooked, 2 in tins Plucks, Pigs', 15 stone 4 lbs.
Heads, Pigs', 7 Potatoes, 1 ton
Herrings, 1 box Skate, l6½ stone
Kidneys, Pigs', 35 lbs. Tomatoes, 4 boxes
Kippers, 2 boxes Tongue, Ox, 1 6-lb. tin
Livers, Mullocks', 2 Veal, 23 6-lb. tins.
Slaughter-houses.
At the end of 1933 there were 3 licensed slaughter-houses (private) in the Borough.
Structurally they do not conform to a high standard of excellence. They are kept under
periodical inspection by the Food Inspectors, who made 156 inspections during the year.