View report page

-8-
The number of attendances during the year was :
Men
Women
Children
under 15
Total
Vermin
878
122
1329
2329
Scabies
883
1006
1931
3820
1761
1128
3250
6149
HOUSING.
Work under the Housing Act has been at a standstill
owing to the war.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
(a) Milk Supply
Premises on the register at the end of the year:
Dairies 155
Itinerant purveyors 73
Sealed containers only 237
774 visits were made. 341 formal samples were taken and
submitted for analysis, 7 (2.0 per cent) of which fell below
the limits required by the Board of Agriculture Regulations.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders. 1936 and 1938
The number of licences granted during 1941 was as follows:-
Licences
Supplementary
Licences
Tuberculin tested
13
7
Accredited
2
-
Pasteurised
45
14
(b) Meat and Other Foods
(I) Public Health (Meat) Regulations. 1924
Periodical visits of inspection were made as follows:-
Slaughter houses 10
Meat depot 313
Butchers' Shops and Meat Stalls 1033
Prepared Meat Premises 359
(II) Inspection of other Premises where Food, is
prepared or offered for sale
The Food Inspectors have kept all such premises under
regular and frequent observation, 338 inspections being made
for the purpose.