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Milk Samples
Milk samples submitted for chemical analysis during the year
numbered 38 including 7 taken at hospitals, schools and day nurseries in
the Borough. The average fat and solids-not-fat content of ordinary
milk samples analysed was 3.53 and 8.53 per cent, respectively, and of the
superfatted variety 4-4-5 and 8.63 per cent, respectively.
Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations. 1937-48
322 Detention Notices and 277 Release Notices were served under the
Regulations. These affected a variety of foodstuffs including animal
casings, cocoa butter, coconut, coffee, curry, cereals, canned foods,
capsicum, chillies, dried fruit, dried egg products, fruit pulp, groundnuts
gum arabic, lard, meats, spices and tea.
Four consignments of animal casings, which arrived unaccompanied by
correct official certificates, were subsequently released on production
of the certificates. A consignment of salami arriving without a certificate
was destroyed.
Sausages (meat content)
Analysis of 18 samples of pork sausages and 3 samples of beef sausages
showed the average meat content to be 70.21 and 55.3%, respectively,
Unsound Food
The following quantities of unsound foodstuffs were disposed of,
during the year, under the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations 1937-48
and the Public Health (London) Act 1936:-
Wharves 144 tons 2 cwts.
London Fruit Exchange and
Spitalfields Market 125 " 19 "
Bishopsgate Goods Station 14 " 6 "
Do. (Train Ferry) 1 " 13 "
Other Premises 154 " 3 "
Total: 440 tons 3 cwts.
About 43 tons of unsound food was allowed to be used for chemical or
animal feeding purposes, or for manufacturing purposes other than for human
consumption, the remainder being delivered to, or collected by, the Public
Cleansing Department at whose riverside depot it was mixed with household
refuse, under supervision, and removed by barge to a controlled tipping
site in Essex.
Approximately 1,500 Condemnation Certificates in respect of unsound
food were issued in 1964.
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