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Four samples from L.C.C. Schools in the Borough were taken and submitted to
bacteriological examination, the result in each case being satisfactory.
Artificial Cream Act, 1929.
The above Act, which came 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 focd.
The number of premises on the register at the end of the year was 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-const,ituted Cream would appear to be more appropriate than the word Artificial.
(6) 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. On one occasion a seizure of unsound food was made.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
Surrendered.
Apples, 40 20-lb. boxes Kidneys, Pigs', 13 lb3.
Bacon, 236¾ lbs. Kippers, 7 boxes
Beef - Corned, 6 6-lb. tins Misenteries, Pigs', 2
Cod, 64 lbs. Pears, 20 boxes
Dabs, 2 boxes and 70 lbs. Periwinkles, 2 bushels
Dogfish, 2 stone Pork, 11 lbs.
Fowls, 63 Potatoes, 12 stone.
Haddock, 1 box and 14 lb. Roe, Cod's, 1 box.
Haddock and Rock Salmon, 70 lbs. Skate, 2 boxes and 20¼ stone
Ham, 1 Tongue, Ox (tinned), 1
Ham, Boneless, 15½ lbs. Turkeys, 13
Ham, Tinned, 70½ lbs. Whiting, 2 boxes
Head, Pigs', 16
Seized.
Head, Pig's, 1 (Tuberculous).
Slaughter of Animals Acr, 1933.
This Act was passed to provide for the humane and scientific slaughter of animals
and came into operation on 1st January, 1934. No animal is to be killed in a slaughterhouse
or knacker's yard except it be instantaneously slaughtered, or shall by stunning
be instantaneously rendered insensible to pain until death supervenes, and such slaughtering