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The manufacture of ice-cream was not carried out at any of
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 130 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 104
Grade II 15
Grade III 8
Grade IV 3
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.
Although not quite up to the standard of recent years, the
above results can be considered fairly satisfactory.
MEAT.
During the year the Council gave consideration to the question
of providing slaughtering facilities in the District, following the
decontrol of meat and livestock and cessation of rationing, which
occurred during the summer.
Having regard to the comparatively small numbers of livestock
slaughtered in the two slaughterhouses licensed prior to the
War, no action was taken in the matter.
An application for a licence for the use and occupation of one
of the two slaughterhouses referred to was refused in the interests
of the public health. No appeal was made.
The owner of the remaining slaughterhouse intimated that
in the circumstances, he did not propose to apply for the renewal
of his licence.
One slaughterman's licence was 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 5 cattle, 3
calves and 56 pigs were inspected for evidence of disease, and a
small quantity of offal only was condemned as unfit for food.
There are 31 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.
Retailers now obtain supplies of fresh and imported meat
from the Croydon Abattoir and Meat Market and the Smithfield
Market, and in addition small quantities of fresh meat direct from
Scotland.
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