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COMPLAINTS
During the year there were 30 complaints as to unsound food
or food not of the nature, quality or substance demanded, and in
two cases the Council instituted Court Proceedings, resulting as
follows:—
A dairy delivering milk from outside the Borough was fined
£15 for selling a pint bottle of milk containing foreign material
showing a profuse growth of mould and bacteria. The Council were
awarded ten guineas costs. A firm of grocers was fined £6 in respect
of the sale in a local shop of two ounces of ham which was unsound
and contained maggots and a dead blowfly. The Council were
awarded three guineas costs.
FOOD HYGIENE
Following the Clean Food Exhibition held in 1950 lectures
fllustrated by "Kodaslide" have been given by the Sanitary Inspectors,
and have proved of great interest to those attending, who
have included social groups, staffs of food premises, technical college
students, and senior school children.
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,