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CONDENSED MILK REGULATIONS.
No samples were submitted for analysis.
MILK AND DAIRIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1915.
The above Act, which became operative, under an Order of the Ministry of
Health, on September 1st, 1925, may be briefly referred to. It deals, amongst others,
with milk and dairies orders and the powers for enforcing the same, tuberculosis
in respect to milk, giving powers for stopping supplies and making the inspection
of dairies in certain cases obligatory. It also amends the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts, 1875-1907, with reference to sampling milk. Power is also given to Sanitary
Authorities with the approval of the Ministry of Health to establish and maintain
depots for the sale at not less than cost price of milk specially prepared for consumption
by infants under two years old.
For a breach of Section 6 of the Act, namely, selling milk in a public place
without having his name and address inscribed on the barrow a person was ordered
to pay 10s. 6d. costs.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER, 1922.
During the year licenses were issued to sell " certified " milk in accordance with
the above Order at 73, Kingsland Road, 193, Kingsland Road, 60, Shepherdess Walk
and 13/15, Sun Street.
COOK-SHOPS AND EATING-HOUSES.
Including the kitchens of public-houses, where food is prepared for customers,
174 were under inspection during the year, and some 567 visits were made in
connection with them. Sanitary notices were served to the number of 54, and
included 44 which were mainly for cleansing.
FRIED-FISH SHOPS.
Some 55 were under inspection, and 289 visits were made in connection with
them. The sanitary notices required numbered 25, mainly on account of general
cleansing.
ICE CREAM SHOPS.
There were 135 under observation during the year, and 306 visits of inspection
were made in connection with them. 21 sanitary notices were served, mostly for
general cleansing.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PRESERVATIVES, &c., IN FOOD) REGULATION, 1925.
The above Regulations come into operation generally on January 1st, 1927,
but in certain specified cases they do not become operative until later dates. The