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Dried milk has been sold at cost price at all the Centres
during the year to those who cannot afford to pay the ordinary
trade price.
The Borough Council provides food other than milk for
nursing and expectant mothers when recommended by the
Medical Officer in charge of the Maternity Clinics. Arrangements
have been made with the proprietors of eating-houses
to supply dinners to expectant and nursing mothers. This
method of supplying food is popular and is best for the
mother. It ensures that the woman herself eats the food,
which is not always certain with other arrangements.
In connection with the supply of food and milk, the grant
of the Ministry of Health of 50% is available for approved
expenditure.
FOOD INSPECTION, INCLUDING MEAT AND OTHER FOODS
40. It is the duty of each sanitary inspector, whilst on
his district, to be on the outlook for unsound food, but, in
addition to this, two inspectors specially inspect food exposed
for sale in shops, and in the market places, and have made
regular inspections of the slaughterhouses in the Borough.
No public abattoir exists in the Borough.
The number of carcases condemned on account of tuberculosis
was 6.
On 107 occasions during the year unsound food was surrendered
as compared with 120 in 1919. Included in the food
surrendered were 2 tons, 13 cwts. of beef; 2 tons 9 cwts. 3
qrs., mutton; 1 ton, 10 cwts., fish; 822 lbs. of bacon; 790
lbs. of dates; 376 lbs. of butter; 390 lbs. of rabbits; 327
lbs. of pork; 2 cwts. of rice; 2 cwts. of potatoes, and smaller
quantities of corned beef, offals, fruit, and various canned
goods.