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(2) MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
(a) Meat.
There is one licensed slaughterhouse in the district,
the licence of which is renewable annually. Since the outbreak
of war slaughtering in Barking has been discontinued.
(b) Supervision of Food Preparing Premises.
The number of premises in the district at the end of
the year at which the following foods are prepared were
Sausages 25
Pot tea Meat and Brawn 4
Roast anchor Boiled Ham 4
Pressed, Pickled, Cooked, etc.,
Beef and Tongue34
Roast Pork
Bacon
Boiled Crabs and Lobsters 2
Pickled Fish 2
Pickled Onions 1
Smoked Fish 3
Bakehouses 10
(c) Unsound Food.
The following list gives particulars of unsound food
destroyed during the year :-
200 lbs. Beef.
40 lbs. Rabbits.
11 Chickens.
110 lbs. Bacon.
1,207 Eggs.
422 lbs. Fish.
15 lbs. Mutton Fat.
335 Tins Food (Various).
(3) FOOD POISONING.
There were no cases of food poisoning notified
during the year.
(4) FOOD & DRUGS ACT. 1938. SAMPLING.
During the year your authorised officers have submitted
a total of 141 samples, divided as follows :-
Milk 8
Butter 3
Others 130
Total 141
The reports of the Borough Analysts, Dr. B. Dyer
and Dr. J.H. Hamence, Great Tower Street, London, E.C. show
that of this total, four were found not genuine.
In connection with these unsatisfactory samples,
proceedings were instituted and a sum of £35.10. Od. paid
in fines.
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