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12,091 lbs. Fruit
33 lbs. Fruit (dried)
20 lbs. Kidneys
44 lbs. Liver
1,135 lbs. Meat (tinned)
405 lbs. Meat
66 lbs. Milk (tinned)
3 lbs. Pickles
23 lbs. Poultry
32 lbs. Preserves
240 lbs. Rabbit
36 lbs. Sausages
3 lbs. Sauces
45 lbs. Soups
2 lbs. Suet
319 lbs. Vegetables (tinned)
3,891 lbs. Vegetables
Milk and Dairies Regulations.
Twelve dairies have been registered under the above Regulations.
Details of the licences issued during 1960 are:—
Tuberculin Tested Dealer's Licences 12
Supplementary Licences 3
Pasteurised Dealer's Licences 24
Supplementary Licences 4
Sterilised Dealer's Licences 29
Supplementary Licences 3
Thirty-two visits were made to the dairies in the district during
1960.
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen.
No slaughterhouses were licensed during the year, but licences
were issued to nine slaughtermen under the Slaughter of Animals
Act, 1958.
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens.
One hundred and thirty-eight visits were made to these premises
during the year. In ten cases defects requiring the attention of the
owner were dealt with by informal action.
Butchers' Shops.
One hundred and forty-four detailed inspections were made of
the 47 retail Butchers' shops in the area.
The butchers work in close collaboration with the Public
Health Department and during the year called upon the services of
the District Inspectors in connection with carcase meat suspected of
being unsound, as a result of which 405 lbs. of meat was condemned
as being unfit for human consumption. In no case was there any
evidence of unsound meat being exposed for sale.