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Slaughtering is carried out at all hours of the day up to
late evening and also on Sundays. There is a rota for the
District Inspectors to take extra office hours and Sunday duty
in turn. The Inspector on duty rings up my house at 10.30 a.m.
on Sundays to report and receive any further messages.
Slaughterhouses.
Following is a list of slaughter-houses in the Borough:—
Beckton Road.
Manor Way Farm, New Beckton.
319, Green Street.
167, Plashet Grove.
843, Romford Road.
524, Romford Road.
737, Romford Road.
28, Station Road.
Forest View Road.
170, High Street North, and 638, Romford Road, formerly
included in this list, have now been closed and converted into
other premises.
(c) FOOD AND DRUGS (ADULTERATION) ACT, 1928.
440 samples of food and drugs were taken under the above
Act, of which 13d were milk. 432 samples were certified by Dr.
Bernard Dyer, the Public Analyst, to be genuine articles of food.
Of the remaining eight samples, three were of mixed herbs. In
reference to those samples/ Dr. Dyer reported that they contained
an excessive amount of sand (varying from 3.5—5.0 per cent.)
indicative of carelessness in collection. After some correspondence
and a visit to the factory it was arranged for a further and
finer sifting of these herbs before packing, with the result that
the sand is now reduced to about 2 per cent., below this amount it
is impossible, commercially, to go. If this standard of purity
is maintained I think it meets the requirements of all sampling
Authorities in the country.
One sample of ice-cream was reported to be "genuine in the
sense of being free from any objectionable chemical contamination
and it contained cream mixed with rice flour and sugar—but there
is no standard for the quantity of cream in ice-cream."