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(b) Unsound Food.—The following list gives particulars of the unsound food
destroyed during the year:—
Meat. Tinned Foodstuffs.
2 pigs' heads; 1 pig's spleen; 9 tins condensed milk;
84 lbs. beef ; 4 rabbits. 13 tins fruit products.
Fish. Fruit.
2 bags winkles; 4 lbs. "Polish" nuts;
30 lbs. skate; 254 lbs. walnuts.
78 lbs. kippers.
3. ADULTERATION, ETC.
The Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and kindred Acts and Regulations
are administered in this district by the Essex County Council.
I am indebted to Mr. H. C. Card, Chief Food and Drugs Officer for the Metropolitan
Area of the Essex County Council, for the particulars of samples purchased
and submitted for analysis during the year. These samples are submitted for chemical
examination to Dr. Bernard Dyer, the County Analyst, Great Tower Street, London.
A total of 180 samples were examined during the year 1933.
Three proceedings were instituted in relation to these samples during the period
covered.
4. CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
The bacteriological examination of all milk, ice-cream and water samples is
carried out for this Authority by the Counties Public Health Laboratories, of 91, Queen
Victoria Street, London, whilst the examination of samples of milk for the presence
of tubercle is carried out by Professor R. T. Hewlett, of the Seamen's Hospital,
Greenwich, by animal inoculation.
5. NUTRITION.
As you know, I am never very willing to discuss nutrition in terms of "calories,"
a matter which has been much in evidence in the public eye quite recently.
The significant thing is that twenty-five years ago Chittenden, in America, carried
out an experiment on himself, his assistants, a number of students and a squad of
soldiers. He reduced first-class proteins to forty-one grams, and, although many of
the people who lived on this diet claimed that they felt the better for it, it is significant
that, so far as was known in England, they all gave it up so soon as they were outside
Chittenden's own personal influence.