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Samples of milk numbering 58 were taken from schools in the Borough and submitted
to bacteriological examination, the result in 57 cases being satisfactory. In the remaining
instance the licensee's attention was drawn to the matter, and he subsequently gave up bottling
the milk himself and obtained supplies already bottled by the wholesaler.
Artificial Cream Act, 1929.
The above Act, which came into force on 1st June, 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.
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
Re-constituted Cream would appear to be more appropriate than the word Artificial.
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., and particulars of the number of visits appear on page 53.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
A periodical inspection of butchers' shops and meat stalls is carried out under these
regulations, and the number of visits paid will be found in the table on page 53.
No prosecutions were undertaken during the year in question.
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926.
Under Section 2 certain imported goods may not be exposed for sale unless they bear
an indication of origin. Orders in Council have been made under this Act in regard to honey,
fresh apples, currants, sultanas, rasins, eggs in shell, dried eggs, oat products, raw tomatoes,
fiozen and chilled salmon and trout, butter, bacon, ham, dead poultry, maize, starch, and all
imported meats and offals. Such of the requirements of these Orders as are enforceable by
the Borough Council were observed by the Food Inspectors in the ordinary course of their
duties.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Acts, 1928 and 1931.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has made Orders under this Act prescribing
grade designations of certain agricultural produce of England and Wales to indicate the
quality of the articles. Goods marked must conform to the standards laid down by the
regulations. The Food Inspectors supervise in the ordinary course of their duties such of the
requirements of these Regulations as are enforceable by the Borough Council.
Registration of Premises for Sale, etc., of Ice Cream and Preserved Food.
Section 187 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, states that "any premises
used or proposed to be used for the sale or the manufacture for the purpose of sale of