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In one instance, necessary repairs were not carried out
by the owner, and a certificate was granted to the tenant.
Applications for these certificates are becoming- less
frequent each year.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.
(a) Milk Supply.
During 1928 6 persons were removed from the register
owing to business changes. One dairyman was added to the
register, making a total of 38 on December 31st, 1928,
compared with 43 for the corresponding date in the previous
year. There is only one cowkeeper in the Borough.
No licences have been issued to producers in the
Borough in respect of graded milk, but the following
licences have been issued to dairymen:—
Dealer's Licence to bottle and sell Grade A
(Tuberculin Tested) Milk 1
Supplementary Licence to sell Certified Milk 2
Supplementary Licence to sell Grade A Milk 1
Supplementary Licence to sell Grade A (Tuberculin
Tested) Milk 1
Supplementary Licence to sell Pasteurised Milk 1
Licence to sell Pasteurised Milk 3
(b) Meat and Other Foods.
This branch of the work appears to have no bounds so
far as expansion is concerned. I believe it is a fact that
during each of the ten years I have had the honour to make
an annual report, the statistics show increased amount of
work in this direction. The year 1928 proved no exception.
Previous to 1925, when the Meat Regulations came into
force, there was no obligation for butchers to notify their
intention to slaughter animals. Carcases were only examined
when a chance call at the slaughterhouse coincided with the
time of slaughter, and as the greater part of the killing is
done during the late afternoons and evenings, a large proportion
of the meat was not inspected. The Meat Regulations
changed this state of affairs, and now, as will be seen
by the table on page 39, only a fraction of 1 per cent, of
the animals are not seen.
At the time the new Regulations were about to come
into force I submitted a report to your Public Health Committee
and in that report I estimated the number of animals
slaughtered in the Borough as 2,000 per annum. The Meat