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No manufacture was carried out at the premises registered
for that purpose during the year, and thus, with a minor exception,
all the ice cream retailed in the District was obtained by the
vendors prepacked from large scale manufacturers whose premises
are situated outside the District.
A total of 127 samples of ice cream was examined for
bacterial quality by submission to the methylene blue reduction
test, and placed in the following provisional grades—
Grade I 118
Grade II 4
Grade III 5
Grade IV Nil
Grade I and II samples can be considered satisfactory; only
about a fifth of the samples taken from any dealer should be of
Grade III quality, and none of Grade IV. On these standards
the above results can be considered satisfactory, and to indicate
that the steady improvement noted in recent years has been
maintained.
MEAT.
The two private slaughterhouses in the District have not been
licensed since 1940. In 1953 two licences were issued under the
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, for the purpose of slaughtering
at a Public Institution in the District.
The arrangements made to carry out post-mortem inspections
of all animals slaughtered at Cane Hill and Netherne Hospitals for
consumption by the inmates were continued, but in fact no
slaughterings were recorded at the Cane Hill slaughterhouse during
the year.
At Netherne Hospital the carcases and offals of 7 cattle, 3
calves and 4 pigs were inspected for evidence of disease, and a
small quantity of offal only was condemned as unfit for food.
There are 30 butchers' shops in the District, all registered
for the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved meat under the provision of Section 64 of the
Coulsdon and Purley Act.
Meat is supplied to the shops from the Wholesale Meat
Supply Association Depot, situated outside the District.
Frequent inspections are carried out and, during the year,
132 visits were made for this purpose.
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