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One of the results of close supervision has been centralised
production, and all the ice cream retailed in the District is obtained
by the vendors, prepacked, from large scale manufacturers whose
premises are situated outside the District.
A total of 129 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 117
Grade II 10
Grade III 1
Grade IV 1
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 general position can be
considered reasonably satisfactory.
MEAT.
There are no slaughtering facilities in the District, apart from
those at Cane Hill Hospital, which did not function during 1957,
and at Netherne Hospital where the carcases and offals of the 11
cattle, 1 calf and 2 pigs killed were inspected for disease. A number
of the cattle slaughtered were found to be suffering from
parasitic bronchial pneumonia and a quantity of offal was condemned.
Animals slaughtered at these hospitals are solely for the
consumption of the inmates.
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 provisions of Section 16 of
the Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
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 meat shops are carried out, and during
the year 99 visits were made for this purpose.
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UNSOUND FOOD.
The following unsound foods were surrendered during 1957,
the total quantity being very much less than in the previous year.
With minor exceptions, all unsound food is disposed of at the
Council's destructor.