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Completed Works
W.C. provided 22
Baths/showers provided 42
Sinks/lavatory basins provided 39
Water Heaters provided 181
Cooking facilities provided 16
Food stores provided 20
Space Heating provided 22
Fire Precautions Work 207
Electricity restored 2
Repairs
External 151
Internal 195
FOOD HYGIENE
From time to time it is necessary to review the various duties for which we are responsible and among other
things to ask ourselves whether we have our priorities in the right order. Such an exercise may very well
result in less effort being given to certain aspects to allow more attention to be given to a facet of the work
which appears to have evolved in such a way as to justify more attention and time being given to it. It may also
serve the purpose of indicating that in certain aspects we are justified in continuing a method which is traditional.
In the very wide field of Food Hygiene, efforts have been made to arrange exhibitions, series of lectures,
seminars, Press campaigns etc. These may do some good if viewed over a long period, but experience shows that
nothing can replace the frequent visits of the Public Health Inspector to all food premises in his capacity as
friend and mentor. He can under favourable circumstances, advise and obtain standards far above those which
he can enforce. As a result of the steadily improving standards in Food Hygiene, the recalcitrant trader is
highlighted and firm measures have to be adopted with the result that more cases are being taken before the
courts and more food being seized for condemnation than in the past.
Special problems which have developed during the year are those in connection with the use of (a) micro-wave
ovens which are coming into use in greater numbers, with the possible risk to users from radiation leakages and
(b) the increasing use of deep freeze cabinets in domestic premises. This from time to time raises problems in
dealing with complaints regarding unsatisfactory food-stuffs such as meat which was purchased weeks if not
months before.

Registered Food Premises
At the end of the year the following premises were registered under Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act
1955:-
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