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SECTION E.—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.—There are 162 premises upon which milk is sold. Inspections made numbered 243.
During the year 33 applications under the Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1936 and 1938, were received from
15 milk purveyors and licences were granted as follows : 1 pasteurising, 17 dealers' and 2 supplementary in the case of
pasteurised milk; 1 bottling, 11 dealers' and 1 supplementary in respect of tuberculin tested milk.
The average composition of the 113 samples of milk analysed was : total solids, 12.73% fat, 3.85% ; solids not
fat, 8.88%. No sample was found to be below standard.
Thirty-four samples of milk were submitted to bacteriological examination, and all were found to comply with the
Ministry of Health standard.
Meat and other Foods.—Unsound Food.—Some 13 tons of food condemned as unfit for human consumption
included the following : meat, 1 ton 2 cwts. 1 qtr. 16 lbs. ; fish, 2 tons 6 cwts. 2 qtrs. 5 lbs. ; fruit, 8 cwts. 22 lbs. ;
vegetables, 3 tons 6 cwts. ; cereals, 3 cwts. 2 qtrs. 27 lbs. ; canned goods, 5,988 tins ; miscellaneous, 7 cwts. 2 qtrs.
22 lbs. Practically all this unsound food was salvaged and diverted to other uses.
Slaughterhouses.—-The only licensed slaughterhouse in the Borough is that at the Zoological Society's premises in
Regent's Park. The slaughtering done is for the food for the animals in the gardens and humane killers are used.
Four inspections were made. Two licences to slaughter or stun animals, granted to skilled slaughtermen, were renewed.
Food Premises.—At the end of 1943, 109 premises were registered for the preparation or manufacture of foods (other
than ice cream) intended for sale, and 241 inspections were made.
Ice Cream Premises.—The number of premises still on the register was 71. The manufacture of ice cream was
prohibited throughout the year under a Ministry of Food Order.
Butter and Margarine Premises.—-At the end of the year there were on the register 16 dealers in margarine, 1
wholesale dealer in milk-blended butter and 2 butter manufacturers. Forty-seven inspections were made.
Bakehouses.—Number on register—26, 20 being basement bakehouses ; 92 inspections were made. Re-inspection
of basement bakehouses was carried out in accordance with Section 54 (2) of the Factories Act, 1937, which requires a
local authority to examine, every fifth year, all basement bakehouses for which a certificate of suitability has been
issued. Certificates of suitability were permitted to continue to operate in the case of 20 such bakehouses. Entries
relating to 7 basement bakehouses were removed from the register as in each instance the bakehouse had not been
used for the purpose for a period exceeding twelve months.
Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers.—The number of premises used by vendors of fried fish is 8 and by fish
curers 3. Thirty-one inspections of fried fish shops and 12 inspections of fish curers' premises were carried out.
Restaurants, Canteens, etc.—Premises in which meals are provided or food is sold already cooked or is prepared
for sale numbered 656, including restaurant and dining-room kitchens, 362 ; canteens, 251 ; hotel kitchens, 43 :
1,841 inspections were made and 57 notices served.
Horseflesh.—Twenty-three visits were paid to two shops selling horseflesh for human food. Service of notice in
one case was necessary.
Bacteriological Examinations.—Apart from milk, one sample of Cornish pasty was examined bacteriologically
and reported to be satisfactory.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.—-Samples taken under the Act numbered 700 (57 formal, 643 informal) and included :
milk 113, butter 129, margarine 41, cheese 10. The sum paid in respect of each analysis was 12s. 6d. (except in the
case of sausages for which the fee was £1 Is. Od. per sample). Nine samples were adversely reported upon :—