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Other Food Premises.— As a matter of routine a number of food premises,
including eating houses, coffee stalls, butchers' shops and restaurants, are visited
each week by the Food Inspector, and immediate action is taken in regard to any
insanitary condition found. In addition, 1,893 visits were made to shops and stalls
in the markets.
Unsound Food.—There were 574 instances of unsound food being surrendered.
These compare with 327 instances in 1932. Included in the food surrendered were :—
1 ton 5 cwts. Beef; 8 cwts. Mutton ; 4 tons 2 cwts. Pork ; 1 ton 4 cwts. Pig Offal:
11 cwts. Ox Livers; 4 cwts. Ox Lungs; cwts. Sheeps' Offal; 77 lbs. Fish;
19 Fowls; 2 cwts. Apples; 3 cwts. Split Peas, and smaller quantities of Tinned
Salmon, Fruit, Ham, Bananas and Oranges.
Seizures of unsound food were made on 7 occasions, and included the following:—
Beef, Mutton, Plums, Apples, Peaches. Sweets and a Fowl. On the Committee's
recommendation offenders were cautioned by the Town Clerk in respect of two
seizures and proceedings were taken in connection with four of the seizures, particulars
of which are set out in the following Table No. 17. In the other instance,
where meat was seized in a store, the owner could not be traced.

Sophistication of Food.—The following Table, No. 18, gives details of the
various analyses made under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, Public Health
(Condensed Milk) Regulations, Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations and the
Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations. Four samples were taken
on Sundays or public holidays and these were found to be genuine.