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Tinned Meat 37 tins.
Tinned Vegetables 30 tins.
Tinned Fish 6 tins.
Tinned Fruit 172 tins.
This unsound food was disposed of by
incineration or by burial at the Sewage Works.
Bacteriological examination of food.
Details of the milk and ice cream
samples examined appear under their respective headings.
In addition 44 samples of uncooked moat were obtained
from local butchers and sent to the Central Public
Health Laboratory for examination. No significant
organisms were found in any of the samples thus
examined.
Ice cream.
There are now seventy-three premises
in the District which are registered for the sale of
ice cream. This number includes three premises
which were approved for the purpose for the first
time during the year.
Thirty-one samples were examined, all
of which were satisfactory.
Milk.
The milk distributed in the District
is either pasteurised, sterilised, or tuberculin-tested,
as Friern Barnet is in a 'specified area' in which
all milk sold must be of one or other of these grades.
The number of distributors of milk is
twenty, and there is also one dairy where milk is
pasteurised and bottled.
The following licences were granted
by the Council:-
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