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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The supervision of premises and stalls where foods are prepared, stored
or exposed for sale, has been regularly carried out. Defects found at 21 food
premises were remedied.
The provision of washing accommodation at the public convenience in the
High Street during the year has provided a most desirable facility for the traders
in the street market and appreciation thereof has been expressed by them.
Your Inspectors gave advice to the occupiers of food premises on matters
relating to food hygiene and found that food traders, generally speaking, were
anxious to co-operate.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human food,
after examination by your Inspectors, was 10 tons, 16cwts., 1 qr., 16 lbs., a large
proportion of which was at a food manufacturing factory.
The foods condemned were as follows:—
Apples 45 lbs.
Bacon 11,773 „
Beef 597 „
Cakes 10 „
Cheese 70 „
Dried Eggs 1/4 „
Dried Milk .. .. 392 „
Figs 2 „
Fish 1,754 „
Flour .. .. .. 21 „
Grapes .. .. .. 8 „
Jam and Marmalade 5 „
Meat pies .. .. 1 „
Mutton and Lamb .. 609 „
Offal 277 „
Ox tongues .. .. 210 „
Pickles .. .. .. 1 jar
Pork .. .. 60 lbs.
Potatoes .. .. 3 tons.
Rabbits .. .. 297 lbs.
Salad Cream .. .. 549 bots.
Sausages .. .. 585 lbs.
Suet .. .. .. 5 „
Sugar Confectionery.. 7„
Tinned fish .. .. 85 tins
„ fish and meat
pastes .. 10 „
„ fruit .. 23 „
„ meat .. .. 256 „
„ meat and veg. 1 tin
„ puddings .. 3 tins
„ soup .. .. 37 „
„ vegetables .. 97 „
Tomatoes .. .. 9 lbs.
Turkey .. .. 21 „
Veal Loaf .. .. 11 „
Condemnation certificates totalled 473, compared with 419 in 1948.
Milk Supply:—
There are no cowsheds in the district. All milk is retailed in sealed
containers.