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Cautionary Letters
On instructions of the Public Health Committee, cautionary letters
were issued in respect of the following contraventions:-
Sale of bread loaf containing a piece of metal.
Sale of bread loaf containing a piece of string.
Sale of pork sausages deficient in meat.
Sale of pork sausages deficient in meat and containing
excess quantity of preservative.
Failing to screen properly a fish stall.
Milk Samples
Milk samples taken and submitted for chemical analysis during the
year numbered 82, including nine taken at hospitals, schools and day
nurseries in the Borough.
The average fat and solids-not-fat contents of ordinary milk
samples analysed were 3.62 and 8.55 per cent, respectively, while those
of the super-fatted variety were 4.40 and 8.89 per cent.
Poulterers' Premises
Eight summonses issued against the proprietor of a poultry shop for
contravention of the Food Hygiene Regulations resulted in the person
being fined £8 with £3.3.0d costs. Bacteriological examination was
carried out on 83 swabs taken from preparation tables, utensils, etc.,
in poulterers' premises. 5 of the samples were found to be positive to
salm'onellae.
Public Health-(Imported Food) Regulations. 1937-48
181 Detention Notices and 314 Release Notices were served under, the
Regulations. These affected a variety of foodstuffs including butter,
cereals, chillies, cocoa., cocoa-butter, coconut, coffee, dried fruit, egg
powder, ginger, ground nuts, gum tragacanth, honey, lard, assorted
canned goods, offals, senna pods, spices, sugar and tea.
Two consignments of meat and animal casings, which arrived unaccompanied
by the official certificates, were subsequently released on production
of the certificates. 140 carcases of mutton, representing a
5 per cent. examination, were examined for casoous lymphadenitis by the
cutting of the lymphatic nodes. All the carcases examined were found
to be free from disease.
Sanitary Accommodation in Refreshment Houses. Inns. &c.
Section 25 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1959,
enables a metropolitan borough council to require the provision of
sanitary conveniences at inns, refreshment houses, etc.
Following the making of this legislation doubt arose as to the
interpretation of the phrase "refreshment house". Accordingly the
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