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Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply.—There are six registered dairymen and two cowkeepers
occuping premises within, the district, and the residents are
also well served from without. Two cowsheds have been converted to
other uses, one to a motor garage, the other to stables.
The sale of milk in sealed bottles has gained increasing popularity,
the largest retailers in the district having abandoned all hand propelled
prams as well as metal cans in favour of bottle service by horse vehicles.
Undoubtedly sealed milk deliveries direct from the dairy ensures
freedom from sources of contamination.
Enormous breakages in bottles, however, must prove expensive.
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1925.—All graded milk sold in
the district is bottled elsewhere, and the quantity sold is probably very
small in proportion to the milk supply generally. The following
licences, including supplementary, were granted under this Order.
"Certified" Milk 2
"Grade A" (Tuberculin Tested) Milk 4
" Pasteurised" Milk 1
Slaughterhouses.—No change has taken place in the number of
slaughterhouses in use for many years past. These number two, both
of which are well constructed, commodious premises, containing
excellent lairage for cattle.
The occupiers are licensed and the licences are: subject to annual
renewal. The business is well conducted, and, whenever possible, the
examination of carcases takes place at times of slaughter.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
These1 Regulations were duly observed in regard to slaughterhouses,
both as to notice of intended slaughter and to the presence of
abnormal conditions discovered following slaughter. Owing to the
latter obligation one carcase of beef was examined and found to be
affected with generalised tuberculosis and destroyed. The butchers'
shops generally are provided with glass fronts. In, one instance of
rei-occupation improvements to floors and ventilation of the shop and
store were effected, and in another, dirty and unsuitable back premises
used for sausage making were given up on request. There are no meat
stalls in the district.
Bakehouses.—There are five bakehouses in the district, including
two underground, and the Bakehouse Regulations were duly observed.
Foods.—The quality of food sold in the district is, as a rule,
excellent, being obtained largely from the London markets. My attention
is called to any consignment giving rise to doubt, and, in ease of