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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 128 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 110
Grade II 14
Grade III 4
Grade IV
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.
As judged by these standards the above results can be considered
satisfactory.
MEAT.
There are no slaughtering facilities in the District, apart from
those at Cane Hill and Netherne Hospitals which provide meat
for consumption by the inmates, and the arrangements made to
carry out post-mortem inspections of all animals slaughtered at
these Institutions were continued.
No slaughtering, however, was recorded at Cane Hill, while
at Netherne Hospital the carcases and offals of 8 cattle and 2
calves were inspected for evidence of disease with negative results.
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.
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.
Frequent inspections of shops are carried out, and, during the
year, 101 visits were made for this purpose.
OTHER FOODS
The routine inspection of food shops and other food premises
has continued to form an important part of the work of the
Sanitary Inspectors. A register of all such premises includes the
following:—
Confectioners 63
Butchers 31
Fishmongers (Wet and Dry) 16
Fishmongers (Fried)) 6
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