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35
FOOD COMPLAINTS
There were 27 complaints as to unsound food etc., and in 3
leases the Council instituted legal proceedings.
Details are as follows: —
Proceedings were instituted against a firm of bakers for selling
bread containing glass. On a submission by the defence that there
was some doubt as to how the glass came to be in the bread, the
case was dismissed but no costs were awarded.
Another bakery firm was fined 14 for selling bread containing
part of a metal screw. Costs of £4 4s. Od. were awarded to the
Council.
A dairy firm pleaded guilty to selling dough in an acid and
sour condition. A fine of £5 was imposed and costs of £3 3s. 0d.
were awarded to the Council.
MILK
The number of dairies in the Borough has been reduced to two
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.
16 samples of milk were taken throughout the Borough and
on submission to the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of
Health, the results of the bacteriological examinations indicated
that generally satisfactory conditions of processing and storage were
maintained.
The wholesale, pasteurising and bottling centre in Bollo Lane
has continued in operation without cause for complaint, and 8
empty bottles taken from the filling lines for examination as to
sterility, were found to be sterile.