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Ice Cream
Twenty samples of Ice Cream were submitted to chemical analysis
during 1960, and all were found to comply with the statutory standard
for this product.
Thirty-three samples weresubmitted to bacteriological examination,
as a result of which the samples are graded into four degrees of bacterial
cleanliness. The results were as follows:—
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
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Only samples falling into Grades 3 and 4 are regarded as unsatisfactory,
indicating some bacterial contamination either in the
manufacture or the retail serving of the product.
Rent Act, 1957
The details of the administration of this Act were referred to fully
in the 1957 Annual Report.
Seven applications were received for Certificates of Disrepair
during the year 1960, bringing the total number of applications to 141
since the Act came into operation in June, 1957.
Factories Act, 1957
One hundred and twenty-three visits of inspection were made to
factories in the area, and the following nuisances were remedied
following the service of Intimation Notices :—
Want of Cleanliness 1
Insufficient sanitary accommodation 1
Unsuitable or defective sanitary conveniences 8
Disinfection
The Council undertakes, free of charge, the disinfection of rooms,
articles of clothing and bedding after cases of Tuberculosis and
occasionally other Infectious Diseases. Requests for the steam
disinfection of bedding, etc., other than for notifiable illness, are met
but a charge is made for the service. During 1960, 71 applications
were received and accounts rendered for £61 14s.
During the year, 142 Library books were collected from homes
and hospitals where infectious disease had occurred, disinfected and
returned to the Library of origin.
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