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Pastes, pickles, etc. 712 tins.
Puddings, sweet and savoury 360 tins.
Milk, condensed 3,346 tins.
Milk, dried 4 tons, 4 cwt. 2 qtrs.
Sugar 46 lbs.
Tea J lb.
Shell eggs 214.
Dried egg 5 tins.
Pork pies 12.
Dried fruit 2,968| lbs.
,, ,, 31 packets.
,, ,, 197 boxes.
Gravy flour 7,028 packets.
Sweet fat 1 cwt.
Cereals, various 3 cwt.
,, 40 packets.
During the year there were 52 complaints as to unsound food
or food not of the nature, quality or substance demanded, and ini
three cases the Council instituted Court Proceedings, resulted as
follows: —
For the sale of a loaf containing a safety razor blade the
bakers of the bread were fined ±12, and costs of four guineas were
awarded to the Council. A firm of sausage manufacturers outside
the Borough was discharged absolutely in respect of a foreign body;
in a pork sausage, but ordered to pay the Council's costs in the
prosecution. For selling a loaf of bread in which was a wood screw,
a firm of bakers outside the Borough was discharged absolutely/
but ordered to pay the Council's costs in the prosecution.
Milk
There has been no change in the number of establishments in
the Borough where milk is bottled preparatory to local distribution,!
and the good standard of hygiene has been maintained. The wholesale
pasteurising and bottling centre in Bollo Lane has also operated!
with complete absence of cause for complaint. As to sampling, the
results are worthy of special note, as of 113 samples taken and sub-)
mitted to the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Health,)