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A firm of bakers pleaded guilty to selling a cake containing a
nail. A fine of £35 was imposed and the Council were awarded five
guineas costs.
MILK
The number of dairies in the Borough has been reduced to nine
on account of greater wholesale distribution of milk in bottles from
large bottling depots to local depots, for delivery by roundsmen,
or over the counter in milk shops.
Of 43 samples taken throughout the Borough and submitted to
the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, there was
only one failure in respect of the methylene blue test, while all
phosphatase tests were satisfactory.
The wholesale, pasteurising and bottling centre in Bollo Lane
has continued in operation without cause for complaint, and 18
empty bottles taken from the filling lines for examination as to
sterility, were found to be sterile.
The following licences were granted under the Milk (Special
Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations 1949 and
1950, and the Milk (Special Designation (Raw Milk) Regulations
1949 and 1950.
Dealers Licences:-
Tuberculin Tested Milk 20
Pasteurised Milk 29
Sterilised Milk 28
Supplementary Licences:-
Tuberculin Tested Milk 12
Pasteurised Milk 13
Sterilised Milk 13
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ICE-CREAM
The number of manufacturers of ice-cream in the Borough isi
now 6, while there are 112 premises where ice-cream is not manu-i
factured, but where the commodity is sold in the main from prepacked
stocks. During the year 109 samples were taken, 55 of icecream
manufactured in the Borough, and 54 from shops or itinerant
vendors trading in ice-cream manufactured outside the Borough, i