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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
There are no cow-keepers in the district. The number of milk
retailers on the register at the end of the year was 61, including 15 new
names added during the course of the year; among this latter number
were five retailers who sold milk in unopened bottles or containers only.
The premises are inspected periodically by the District Sanitary
Inspectors, the total number of visits made being 120.
No contravention of the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, has come to
the knowledge of the staff during the year.
Regarding the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923, samples of
the designated milks are sent from time to time to the Counties Public
Health Laboratories for bacteriological examinations; the results are
recorded previously under "laboratory facilities."
There are four retailers who bottle their own Grade A (T.T.) Milk;
others purchase it already bottled.
There is also one firm who pasteurise and bottle their own milk.
There were altogether 25 dealers who were granted licences to sell
designated milk during 1933; as some of these dealers had multiple
shops, the figure 25 is actually the number of premises from which these
milks are sold.
Meat and Other Foods.
The following visits by the District Inspectors were made during
the year :—
Butchers' shops 178
Fish shops 62
Coffee shops 12
Ice-cream shops 127
Shops and stalls 284
Slaughter-houses 183
Bakehouses 51
There are one "registered" and two "licensed" slaughter-houses
in the district; these are kept under regular supervision.
The Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, came into force on January
1st, 1934, and the Council have so far issued seven licences to persons to
act as slaughtermen.
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