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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk.
Licences.
The following licences under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936, were
granted during 1945 :—
for the sale of Tuberculin Test Pasteurised —
for the sale of Tuberculin Tested milk 8
for the sale of Accredited milk —
for the sale of Pasteurised milk 12
for Pasteurisation 1
Supplementary Licences 3
a total of 24 licences being in force at the end of the year.
Sampling.
Fifty-nine samples of milk, designated and undesignated, were sent during the
year for bacterial count. The examinations are carried out at the National Institute for
Research in Dairying, Reading, or at the Public Health Emergency Laboratory.
Food Sampling.
The chemical or bacteriological analyses of 144 food samples taken during the year
by the Sanitary Inspectors were carried out by the Public Health Emergency Laboratory.
The Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act is administered by the County Council.
The figures for 1945 are not available.
Food Inspection.
Inspections are made of the carcases of slaughtered animals at St. Bernard's Hospital
(L.C.C.) Slaughterhouse and pig clubs, and of premises where meat, fish and other foods
are sold or prepared for sale. There is no registered slaughterhouse or public abattoir
in the district, and most of the meat supplied comes from the Ministry of Food Distribution
Centre.

RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
Infestation Order, 1943.
The Southall Borough Council continues to act as statutory authority for rats and
mice destruction in accordance with the Infestation Order, 1943.
The survey of infestations was completed by the Sanitary Inspectors in spite of
staff shortage and they continued to direct in their districts the work of the rat catcher.
A survey of sewer infestation was commenced in 1945.
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