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Ham, tinned 1,184 lbs.
Meat: —
Fresh 10,062 lbs.
Tinned 2,026 tins
Corned beef and mutton 13 tins
Offal 401 lbs
Rabbits, fresh 70 lbs
Sausages 4 lbs.
Milk, Condensed 2,919 tins
Pastes, Pickles, etc. 121 jars
Poultry: —
Chickens, tinned 1 tin
Preserves 934 tins
Puddings, sweet and savoury 45 tins
Vegetables 3,431 tins
FOOD COMPLAINTS
There were 22 complaints as to unsound food etc., and in 5
cases the Council decided to send strong warning letters to the
firms or persons who sold the food which formed the subject of the
complaint.
MILK
The number of dairies in the Borough has been reduced to three
owing to the increasing practice of distributing milk wholesale in
bottles from large bottling depots to local depots, for delivery by
roundsmen, or over the counter in milk shops.
Of 62 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 30
empty bottles taken from the filling lines for examination as to
sterility, were found to be sterile.