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(e) Slice of Bread (informal).—Containing rodent excreta and beetle.
Letter of warning sent to manufacturers.
(/) Peanut Butter (informal).—Contained maggots. The retailers
were communicated with.
(iv) Hawkers of Food.
Section 103 of the Essex County Council Act, 1952, came into operation
on 2nd April, 1953, and provides that hawkers of any food, and
premises used for the storage of such food, shall be registered by the
local authority. Registration was granted to 13 persons and 5 premises were
also registered during 1958. The storage premises concerned in the other
cases were not in Ilford.
(v) Registration of Premises used for the Preparation or
Manufacture of Sausages, or Potted, Pressed, Pickled or Preserved
Meat, Fish or other Food Intended for Sale.
Section 80 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, requires registration of
such premises.
2 applications for registration were received and granted during 1958.
(vi) Articles of Food Surrendered.
During the year the following articles were surrendered and condemned
as being unfit for the food of man:—
Bacon, 127½ lb.; Beverages. 1 tin 1 bottle ½ lb.; Biscuits, 58 packets;
Bread. 4 loaves; Butter, 4½ lb.; Cake, 3½ lb.; Cereals. 185 lb. 41 pkts. 7 tins;
Cheese, 140 lb. 330 pkts.; Chocolate Spread, 11 lb.; Custard Powder, 7 pkts.;
Cream. 49 tins; Confectionery, 45 lb.; Eggs Preserved. 14 lb.; Egg Albumen,
1 lb.; Fats, 1 pkt.; Fish (Wet and Dry), 190 stones; Fish (Tinned), 225 tins;
Fish Cakes, 4; Fish Paste, 16 jars; Flour, 8 lb.; Fruit (Tinned). 1,737 tins;
Fruit (Dried), 215 lb.; Fruit (Bottled), 2 lb.; Fruit (Apples), 70 lb.; Fruit
Juice, 20 tins; Jam Preserves, 14 lb. 42 tins; Jellies. 5 pkts.; Meat (Fresh),
2,961 lb.; Meat (Tinned), 1,088 lb.; Meat Pies, 73; Milk (Tinned), 349 tins;
Nuts, 19¼ lb.; Pastry Mixtures, 9 lb. 7 pkts.; Pickles, 8 jars; Salt, 44 lb.;
Salad Cream, 2 bottles; Sauces, 2 bottles; Sausages. 197 lb.; Soups. 134 tins;
Sugar, 5 lb.; Tomatoes, 316 tins; Vegetables (Fresh), 1 lb.; Vegetables
(Dried), 8 lb.; Vegetables (Tinned), 329 tins.
(vii) Foreign Bodies in Food.
11 complaints were received during 1958 of the presence of foreign
bodies in foodstuffs; letters of warning were sent in 5 cases.
(viii) Food Poisoning.
By virtue of Section 82 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, food
poisoning became compulsorily notifiable in Ilford as from 1st October,
1938. It is also notifiable under Section 17, Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
29 notifications were received.
There were 16 family outbreaks and 15 single cases.
In 3 outbreaks (involving 6 persons) the causual organism was identified
as Salmonella Typhi-murium and in 1 outbreak (involving 3 persons)
Salmonella Panama was identified as the cause. In the remaining 12 outbreaks
(involving 29 persons) no agent was identified.