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The number of inspections made during the year was 383 and 30 notices for
offences under the Act were served.
Bakehouses.
Inspections during 1950 numbered 43 and 5 notices were served. Conditions
on the whole were satisfactory. On the occasion of the quinquennial review of
basement bakehouses carried out in 1948, certificates of suitability were issued in
respect of five basement bakehouses.
During the year, after due enquiry and notice to the owner, the certificate of
suitability in force in respect of one of these bakehouses was withdrawn by the
Council, the premises not having been used as a bakehouse within the last twelve
months.
Sophistication of Food.
During the year ended 31st December, 1950, 603 samples, including 421 informal
and 182 formal samples, were submitted for analysis to the Public Analyst. Of
these, 17 formal and 26 informal samples were reported to be adulterated, giving
a percentage of 7.1 compared with 3.3 in 1948 and 4.06 in 1949. The foods examined
were:—
Ale 3 Lard 1
Almonds 1 Lemon Curd 3
Aspirin Tablets 2 Lemonade Crystals 1
Bacon, canned 1 Margarine 3
Bread 3 Marzipan 1
Buns, Cakes and Pastries 43 Meat—Raw 1
Butter 3 Meat Paste 2
Calves' Feet Jelly 1 Meat Pie 1
Camphorated Oil 1 Meat Products 6
Castor Oil 6 Meat Products (canned) 6
Cheese 13 Medicated Throat Pastilles 5
Cherries, Glace 1 Meringues 13
Chocolate, Milk 1 Milk 157
Chocolate Spread 1 Milk (condensed) 16
Coconut, desiccated 3 Mincemeat 1
Coffee 4 Molasses (canned) 7
Coffee and Chicory Essence 3 Olive Oil 2
Confectionery, Sugar 28 Nuts 2
Cooking Fat 2 Nutmegs, ground 1
Cornflour 4 Pastry, uncooked 1
Cream, artificial 1 Pastry Mix 1
Crumpets 1 Peanut Butter 3
Curry Powder 1 Pepper 5
Custard Powder 8 Pickles 9
Dessert Powder 3 Pimento 1
Drinks, soft 10 Potato Crisps 1
Epsom Salts 1 Puddings (Christmas) 14
Fish Cakes 6 Rice 2
Fish (Canned) 15 Rice Ground 1
Fish (cockles) 1 Rum 1
Fish Paste 5 Saccharin Tablets 1
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