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47.
ANTI-FLY CAMPAIGN.
The campaign to combat the fly nuisance was continued. By arrangement,
and with the co-operation of the Transport & Cleansing Superintendent
all dustbins and dust chutes were dusted during the fly-breeding season
with Gammexane after the receptacles had been emptied by the Council's
refuse collectors.
Owners of blocks of flats were again encouraged to take action against
flies, by purchasing insecticide supplied by the Public Health Department
at cost price. Fly sprays were also sold to occupiers of food premises.
FREE WASHING FACILITIES.
Free washing facilities are installed in every public sanitary
convenience in the Borougji. These facilities are being made use of by
an increasing number of users of the conveniences and are a regular
feature in the use of public conveniences.
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF FOOD.
258 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst during the year,
giving a rate of 5.9 per 1,000 population.
These were as follows :-
Bread 3; Butter 1; Cafedrine linctus 1; Cake mixture 1; Coconut,
desiccated 1; Codeine tablets 1; C'ffee essence 1; Confectionery,
sugar 1; Cooking fat 1; Cornflour 1; Cream 35 Curry powder 1;
Custard power 1; Drinks, soft 7? Fish, canned 4; Fish paste 65 Fruit,
dried 4; Fruit, canned 3; Fruit, curd 1; Gelatine 1; Gin 2;
Glycerine, lemon and honey 2 ; Glycerine, lemon and ipecac 1; Glycerine
of Thymol I5 Halibut liver oil capsules 1; Influenza mixture 2;
Indigestion lozenges 1; Jam 5; Jelly tablet 1; Lard 1; Margarine 1;
Marmalade 1; Marzipan 1; Meat, minced 4; Meat products 2; Meat
products, canned 8; Meat paste 3! Milk 125; Milk, condensed 3; Olive
oil 1; Oil, cooking 1; Pease pudding, canned 1; Peel 1; Pepper 35
Pickles 5; Pudding mixture 1; Rice 2; Sauce 55 Soda bicarb. 1;
Soup preparation 4; Spice 6; Suet, shredded 1; Sugar 2; Sulphur
tablets 1; Tapioca 1; Tea 1; Tomato nuree, canned 3; Tonic syrup 1;
Vegetables, canned 2; Vinegar, cider 1; Vinegar, malt 2; Whiskey 4.
Slices from a loaf were submitted by a complainant and were found
to contain a partly-burnt cigarette end which had been baked in the
bread. Legal proceedings were taken and the defendant was fined £5 and
ordered to pay £5 costs.