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The items condemned were as follows:-
Bacon 16,038 lbs. Mutton 20 lbs..
Biscuits 21 lbs. Pickles 5 jars
Butter beans 182 lbs. Pork 271 lbs.
Cake powder 6 pkts. Pudding mixture 62 pkts.
Cheese 18 lbs. Rabbits 769 lbs.
Christmas puddings 4 lbs. Salad powder 21 pkts.
Cocoa 4 lbs. Sauces 6 bots.
Coffee essence 5 bots. Soups and gravy 323 pkts.
Dessert mould 22 pkts. Sponge mixture 112 pkts.
Dried fruit 233 lbs. Sugar confectionery 11 lbs.
Eggs 156 Tinned fish 102 tins
Fish 703 lbs. Tinned fruit 16 tins
Hams 668 lbs. Tinned meat 57 tins
Jam 36 lbs. Tinned meat and veg. 11 tins
Marmalade 19 lbs. Tinned milk 120 tins
Meat extract 1,200 cubes Tinned soup 5 tins
Meat and fish paste 5 jars Tinned vegetables 44 tins
Mincemeat 1 lb. Vinegar 1 bot.
The following licences were issued under the Milk (Special Designations)
Orders:—
Dealers' Licences:—
Tuberculin tested milk 1
Pasteurised milk 3
Supplementary Licences:—
Tuberculin tested milk 3
Pasteurised milk 6
Adulteration, etc.
The Kent County Council's Inspector took 95 samples of various foods in
this district during the year and all were found to be genuine.
Factories Act, 1937.
Visits paid to factories totalled 90 and in addition to verbal intimations
regarding small defects, 6 written notices were served and complied with.
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, and Infestation Order S.R.O. 1943.
Complaints were received from various parts of the district and investigated.
When considered necessary, the drains of premises were tested with smoke and
any defects found made good. Your Inspectors paid 722 visits in connection
with rodent infestation and no major infestations were found.
During June, pre-bait and poisoned bait were laid in 246 manholes and side
entrances of the foul water sewers in the district. It is estimated that at least
2,250 rats were killed in consequence of this treatment of the sewers. The
number of rats killed in other premises during the year is estimated to be at least
1,480.
I desire to express thanks to the Chairman and Members of the Public
Health Committee for their ready consideration and support and to the Staff for
their painstaking work.
I am, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
R. T. PEARCE,
Chief Sanitary Inspector.