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SECTION V.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Four sanitary inspectors are now engaged in the inspection and supervision of
food and food premises. The opening of the new slaughterhouse at Woodlands Farm,
Cloth workers Wood, rendered necessary the appointment of a third inspector for the
supervision of meat in slaughterhouses. Three inspectors are now engaged in this
work and in the taking of samples under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928,
and the various Regulations and Orders dealing with food standards. The fourth
regularly and systematically inspects all food premises, expecially those so used for
the first time, paying particular regard to the hygiene of premises used for the sale,
etc., of food, as provided for in the Public Health (London) Act. 1936. In addition,
each district inspector exercises a general supervision over all food exposed for sale
and all food premises in his district, and in turn is responsible for the bi-weekly
inspections of the market.
Milk Supply.—The Borough Council is required to keep registers of all persons
carrying on in the Borough the trade of cowkeeper, dairyman or purveyor of milk.
The register of retail purveyors of milk must be kept separate from the other. All
dairies have to be registered also. Information on these matters is set out below in
tabular form.
The number of inspections of dairy premises was 356, and a high standard of
cleanliness in cowsheds and dairies and in other premises where milk is sold has been
maintained. At the end of the year the cowsheds in the Borough were as set out in
the following Table No. 25.