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4.—Samples of the milk supplied will be taken from time to time by borough medical
officers of health.
5.—Any head teacher having a point to raise as to the quality of the milk supplied is
asked to communicate with the School Medical Officer. (G.P.H.I.)
6.—Head teachers are asked to ensure that the straws supplied for consuming the milk
are not taken from the sealed wrapping until immediately before use and that they
are destroyed at once after use.
Samples of milk numbering 50 were taken from schools in the Borough and submitted
to bacteriological examination, the result in 48 cases being satisfactory. In the remaining
two instances the licensees' attention was drawn to the matter, and assurances were received
that in future every precaution would be taken to ensure that the graded milk sold by them
complied with the provisions of the Order.
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.
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 61.
The undermentioned unsound or diseased food was surrendered by the owners for destruction
or to be dealt with as trade refuse. On no occasion was a seizure of unsound food made.
Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
Surrendered.
Corned Beef, 30 lbs. and 2 tins.
Haddocks, 16 stones.
Pigs' Heads, 9.
Ham, 45¾ lbs., 1 tin and 1 ham.
Greens, 6 sacks.
Peaches, 8 boxes.
Nectarines, 132 boxes.
Apples, 21 boxes.
Beef, 11 stones.
Bacon, 264¾ lbs.
Sardines, 200 tins.
Kippers, 11 boxes.
Fish, 12 stones.
Strawberries, 168 lbs.
Pickles, 1 gallon.
Cherries, 44 boxes.
Herrings, 1 cwt.
Hogs Meat, fore quarter.
Cheese, 1076 lbs.
Skate, 190 lbs.
Cod, 3 stones.
Pieces, 5 lbs.
Cocoanut ice sweet, 5 lbs,
Sprats, 50 lbs.