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during the year. 12 tins of ANTI-FLY SPRAY were also sold to occupiers
of food premises. Observations were kept on bombed sites and action
was taken to prevent any putrescible matter being a medium of flybreeding.
Many offensive deposits such as dead dogs and cats,
mattresses and bedding, etc., were disinfected and removed. Owing to
the cold and wet summer there were fewer complaints of flies.
FREE WASHING FACILITIES.
Free washing facilities are installed in every public sanitary
convenience in the borough. These facilities are being made use of by
an increasing number of persons. It may be worth recording that the
Shoreditch Borough Council were one of the pioneers in providing free
washing facilities to the public at sanitary conveniences, and it is
pleasing to record that many local authorities have now followed suit.
With the ever-present danger of serious typhoid infection and the
apparent increase of cases of mild food poisoning, it must be apparent
that the value of free facilities to wash the hands after using the
water closet must be a sound preventative in the transference of
infection.
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF FOOD.
400 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst during the year, giving
a rate of 8.9 per 1,000 population.
They were as follows
Arrowroot 3; Aspirin tablets 4; Black pudding 2; Borax and
honey 6; Boric acid 11; Boric acid ointment 4; Boracic- powder 3;
Brawn 1; Brandy 2; Bread 17; Bun, Cake and Pudding mixtures 16;
Butter 3j Camphorated Oil 4; Cascara Sagrada 4; Chooolates 1;
Coffee 7; Coffee and Chicory 8; Cooking fat 3; Custard powder 1;
Dill water 4; Drinks (soft) 4; Eucalyptus 7; Fish, canned 7;
Fish paste 12; Gin 4; Glycerine 2; Golden raising powder 1;
Gravy preparations 6; Herbs 8; Ice Cream 6; Iodine 14; Jam 8;
Margarine 3j Marmalade 1; Meat paste 11; Meat pie 5; Meat
products 19; Medicated Throat Pastilles 10; Milk 52; Milk,
condensed 7; Paraffin, med. 6; Parrish's Chemical Food 3;
Pea flour 1; Peas, canned 4; Pepper 2; Piokles 5; Rum 3;
Sauces 15; Sausage 13; Seidlitz powder 3; Soup, canned 11;
Soup powder 7; Spices 10; Stuffing mixture 9; Tea 5; Vegetables,
canned 6; Vinegar 3; Whiskey 3.
Of the 52 samples of milk taken, 7 were found to contain added
water, all to the extent of less than cne per cent.
Slices of bread which were found to contain small pieces of cement
were produced by a complainant. Legal proceedings were instituted and
the defendants were fined a total of £24 and ordered to pay £10 costs.