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(vi) Legal Proceedings.—None were taken during the year.
(vii) Registration.—No application for registration was refused during
1941.
Articles of Food Surrendered.
During the year the following articles of food were surrendered and
condemned as being unfit for the food of man:—
44 lbs. beef; 3 tins meat; 10 lbs. melts; 1 bullock's head; 7 lbs. calves
pluck; 5 lbs. pressed beef; 16 tins corned beef; 6 lbs. ox tongues; 6 tins
meat roll; 20 tins salmon; 10 lbs. lambs liver; 105 lbs. brawn; 2 tins ham;
340$ lbs. bacon; 56 lbs. sausages; 238$ dozen eggs; 27 cases and 7 lbs.
rabbits; 2,322 tins milk; J lb. butter; 550 tins and 19 stone fish; 4 boxes
kippers; 287 tins vegetables; 12 tins and 232 lbs. fruit; 145 tins soup;
10 tins jam; 5 tins Cafe au lait; 15 tins cream; 27 lbs. cheese; 262J lbs.
cake; 2 jars pickles; 61 tins, assorted (unlabelled) and 1 bottle salad cream.
In addition various items of food, confectionery, etc., were condemned
on account of pollution by enemy action. In many instances the food was
salvaged under the instructions of the Ministry of Food Salvage Officer.
(i) Food and Drugs Act, 1938.—During 1941, 152 samples (151
formal and 1 informal) of Food and Drugs were obtained, 2 of the formal
samples were not genuine.
Prosecutions were undertaken in both cases as follows:—
(a) Milk.—Containing 4 parts per cent, added water. Case dismissed
on payment of costs (25s. in case of Company and 4s. in case of roundsman).
(b) Pork Sausage Meat.—Containing 300 parts per million excess of
sulphur dioxide; also 10 per cent, excess of meat. Defendant fined 10s. on
each count and 10s. 6d. costs.
Food Poisoning.
By virtue of Section 82 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, food
poisoning became compulsorily notifiable in Ilford as from 1st October, 1937.
2 cases were notified under the Act and 11 cases of suspected food
poisoning were reported to me, but not notified. All were investigated
but none found to be cases of genuine food poisoning.
Bakehouses.—There are 38 bakehouses in the district, 29 of which use
motive power. 241 inspections of bakehouses were carried out during the
year.
It was necessary to call upon the occupiers of bakehouses to carry out
cleansing and other work in 11 instances, and the requests were complied
with.
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1894-1925. (i) Regulation of
Movement of Swine Fever Order, 1922.—Licences were issued for entry
into the Borough of 89 pigs and for removal from the Borough of 8 pigs.
(ii) Sheep Scab Orders and Amendment Orders, 1928, 1930, 1934 and
1934 (No. 2).—There has been no occasion for this Borough to be made into a
"double-dipping" area under these Orders during the year 1941. The only
sheep in the borough, at a large farm, have been double-dipped unofficially by
the owner in his own interests.
(iii) Swine Fever Orders, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1916 and 1917: Swine
Fever (Regulation of Movement) Order, 1922: and Amendment Orders
1922 (No. 1), 1936 and 1936 (No. 3).
A case of swine fever occurred on 19th November at a farm at Chadwell
Heath, 11 of the pigs at the farm died, and the notices were withdrawn
on 2nd March, 1942.
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919.—89 complaints have been
received of the existence of rats affecting 129 premises. In 27 of these
cases poison gas has been used, and in the remaining cases other steps have
been taken.