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Ice Cream.
There were 322 registered ice cream premises in the Borough at the end of the
year, of which six premises were used for manufacture and seven for the storage
of ice cream.
The majority of the dealers sell pre-packed ice cream only.
Routine visits are made to all the premises, and during the year some 35
defects were found and remedied. Eight informal notices and one formal notice
were served.
The premises of each new applicant for registration are inspected in order to
ensure that they are satisfactory and that the requirements of the Heat Treatment
Regulations are fully understood.
During the year ten samples of ice cream were submitted to the Laboratory
for grading by the Methylene Blue test. The results of the tests indicated that
eight of the samples were in Grade I, one in Grade II, and one in Grade III.
Meat Inspection.
A total of 42,016 carcases were inspected at the Garland Road Abattoir during
the year. Slaughtering is carried out daily and the meat is inspected immediately
after slaughter by three of the Council's Sanitary Inspectors specially qualified in
this work. The slaughter of horses is not carried out at this Abattoir.
There was a considerable drop in the number of animals passing through this
Abattoir during the year, mainly due to the increased consumption in this country
of imported frozen and chilled meat as distinct from home-killed animals,
The following table gives details of the types of animals slaughtered and
inspected during the vear 1955.