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Restaurants, Hotels, Canteens, etc.
Following the detailed survey made in 1949, 146 routine visits
were paid to these premises. Two meetings were arranged with
the proprietors of cafes, etc., the second one being of an instructional
nature. A report of these meetings is presented on
Page 50 (Section J—Other Services).
Unsound Food.
During 1950, a total of 918 condemnation certificates were
issued, affecting in quantity 3 tons 1 cwt. of varied articles of
food. No prosecutions were necessary, and the condemned food
was utilised either for animal food or, where this was
impracticable, destroyed. The co-operation of the traders was in
all cases complete.
557 tins Vegetables.
1 „ Baking Powder.'
7 „ Chocolate Spread.
444 „ Fruit.
1 „ Curry Powder .
2 „ Coffee.
127 „ Soup
438 „ Meat.
328 „ Milk.
238 „ Preserves.
460 „ Fish.
1 „ Shredded Coconut.
1 „ Baby Food.
1 „ Apple Dumpling.
38 „ Christmas Pudding.
3½ lbs. Butter.
131 „ Cereal.
3 cwt. 56¾ lbs. Fresh Meat.
93¼ lbs. Cheese.
12½ „ Cheese Trimmings.
15 „ Flour.
3 cwt. 99 lbs. Sausages.
18½ lbs. Margarine.
4 cwt. 25& lbs. Dried Fruit.
103¾ lbs. Bacon.
28 „ Dried Fish.
35 „ Fruit Cake.
2 lbs. Veal and Ham Pie.
1 cwt. 53 lbs. Tinned Ham.
96 lbs. Chocolate.
14 „ Sugar.
15 „ Dutch Jellied Veal.
11 „ Cooked Ham.
9 „ Prawns.
40 „ Herring Roes.
4 „ Lemonade Powder.
7½ „ Marrow Bones.
10 „ Sausage Meat.
8 cwt. 31½ lbs. Wet Fish.
1 cwt. New Potatoes.
2 jars Bovril.
189 packets Cereal.
29 jars Pickles.
11 bottles Sauce.
9 boxes Cheese.
19 jars Sandwich Spread.
33 packets Flour.
3 bottles Coffee Extract
12 jars Salad Cream and
Mayonnaise.
1 bottle Fruit Juice
8 packets Dates.
1 Sponge Cake.
256 Christmas Puddings.
6 Rabbits.
Complaints.
Nineteen complaints of unsound condition and contamination
of foodstuff were received during the year and these were dealt
with to the ultimate satisfaction of the department and the
complainants.