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This statement shows the necessity and importance of a
sufficient staff of Inspectors to cope with the fraudulent dealers in
milk and other articles of diet, for unfortunately it is the poor
people and little children who suffer most by these adulterations.
Other Foods.
Mr. Fred Wilson and Mr. T. M. Boswell, the Assistant
Sanitary Inspectors, who hold the Certificate of the Royal Sanitary
Institute for Inspector of Meat and Foods, visit the slaughterhouses,
of which there are 18 in the District, every week, and as
will be seen by a reference to the Sanitary Inspector's Report, they
paid 837 such visits, examined 2,517 carcases, and secured the
surrender of 32 parcels of diseased organs.
The sanitary condition of the slaughterhouses is, on the whole,
satisfactory.
BAKEHOUSES.
I visited the 43 bakehouses in the District, of which 38 are in
use, the other 5 either being empty or used for other purposes, and
found them all in a satisfactory condition.
I was particularly pleased to find an up-to-date Automatic
Plant of Bread making Machinery installed in one bakehouse.
This installation consists of four principal machines, viz:—a
Dough Divider, a Hander-up, an Automatic prover, and a Finishing
Moulder. The dough (previously kneaded by a machine kneader)
is placed into the hopper of the dough divider in bulk, and this
machine divides it into individual pieces of the exact weight
required for the loaves, this doing away with the usual hand cutting
and weighing. The loaves are delivered from this machine in lots
of two at a time, at the rate of 1,200 per hour. From the divider
the loaves pass automatically on to the hander-up, which moulds
them (in a manner identical with hand moulding) in a suitable form
for the proper development of fermentation.
From this machine the loaves are passed, automatically, into
the prover, which resembles a large square glass case. This is
fitted with shelves or trays, each of which hold 8 loaves. As each
tray is filled it moves forward mechanically, and its place is taken
by an empty tray, until, by the time the whole of the fifty trays are
filled, the first one has arrived at the point where the loaves emerge
from the prover. They are then passed on, again automatically, to
the finishing moulding machine, upon which the loaves are moulded
into the required shapes ready for baking.
All that is then required to complete the process is for the
loaves to be placed upon boards or shelves, which are then placed
upon trolleys and wheeled to the ovens. The latter being of the
draw-plate tvpe are "set" or filled by the simple action of tilting
the loaves off the aforesaid shelves on to the oven plates.