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Bakehouses.
There are 31 factory and 12 retail bakehouses in the district,
to which 131 visits were paid during the year.
In some instances it was found the premises needed cleansing
which was carried out on receipt of notice from this department.
Food Shops.
727 visits were paid to butchers' shops, 199 to fish shops, 377
to provision shops, 283 to dairies and milk shops and 233 to greengrocers'
shops. The following amounts of food-stuffs were condemned
and voluntarily surrendered : prawns 30 lbs.; fresh fruit of various
descriptions 51 lbs.; tinned fruit ½ lb.; and marmalade 2,199 lbs.
Fried Fish Shops.
Fish frying is one of the scheduled offensive trades in the
district. At the beginning of the year there were 27 such premises
in the area. During the year two businesses closed down and
another four were sanctioned, but only three established, making
a total at the end of the year of 28.
To these 138 visits were paid. Most of the businesses are
carried on in up-to-date premises with modern appliances. The
premises are kept clean, and the few complaints received were
promptly attended to.
(C) ADULTERATION, ETC.
Food and Drugs.
During the year 194 samples were analysed. Of these 141
were of milk of which 5 were adulterated. Two out of the 53
samples of other commodities proved to be adulterated. Three
cases were prosecuted, convictions being obtained in each instance.
In the report of the Local Government and Public Health
Consolidation Committee on the draft Food and Drugs Bill it is
recommended that the laws which previously appeared in two
separate codes, namely, the food and drugs code, aiming at the
protection of purchasers from fraud and deception, and the public
health code, aiming at the safeguarding of public health, should
be combined in a single measure. The Committee also suggests
that the authorities outside London which should be responsible for
the provisions of the Bill should be the councils of county boroughs,
boroughs and those urban districts with a population at the last
census of 40,000. Reference was made to the desirable standard
of three samples for analysis per 1,000 population annually.
(D) CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL
EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
These examinations are carried out at the Laboratories of
the Clinical Research Association Limited, Watergate House,
Adelphi, London, W.C.2.