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Other Foods.
Difficulty has been experienced in controlling and proving
precisely when hake-houses receive the periodical cleansing required,
and as it is exceptional to find occupiers of such premises exceeding
their duty in this respect, an advantage should result wore the
required six-monthly cleansing fixed so as to fall say during the
first seven days of the months of April and October in each year.
The lack of powers to deal effectively with the cleansing and renewal
of troughs and other utensils is to be regretted.
The methods in vogue for the distribution of bread in this
district leave much to be desired. It is not uncommon to see
bread vans with open fronts so packed with loaves that there is
scarcely room for the driver, and rendering contact with his
clothing inevitable, whilst bread so conveyed is exposed to dust
from the streets and the horse.
Similar criticisms are merited with regard to the manner in
which meat, green vegetables and fruit are exhibited, being exposed
to dust or other contamination.
Preparation of Sausages, etc.
Provision for dealing adequately with premises at which the
manufacture of sausages and like commodities is carried on together
with the fixing of proper standards for such food stuffs are
required. The question of providing such means of control demands
early consideration.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
I am indebted to Dr. C. W. F. Young, County Medical Officer,
for the following report prepared by Mr. Robinson, the Chief Officer
of the Public Control Department, as to the samples purchased in
this area during 1920.