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of their inspections of the various food premises in the
Borough:
lbs.
Beef 543
Butter 50
Cheese 42
Chickens (11) 55½
Cod fillets 49
Coned beef 800½
Dried fruit 7
Egg powder 26
Pish 2.380
Ham 17
Kidneys 14
Lamb 220
Lamb tongue 24
Liver 109½
Ox cheek 145
Ox kidneys 21½
Ox tongue 2½
Pigs cheeks 10
Pork 74
Prawns 20
Rice 42
Semolina 30
Steak & Kidney 65
Sugar 13
Tea 31,120
Turkeys 57
Foodstuffs not calculated by weight:-
Assorted tins, packets,
jars, cases and boxes 3,299
Articles: Chickens 19
Pig 1
Lamb 1
Tea.
On the 1st January, 1959, the responsibility for
sampling imported tea for adulteration and unfitness was
transferred to the Local Authority from H.M. Customs and
Excise. In the Borough is a large tea-packing factory and
bonded warehouse to which some 2,000 cases of tea are
brought direct each week.
During the year 263 samples of tea were taken from
this factory. 24 of them were sent to the Public Analyst,