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It seems clear from the above that the better article from a bacteriological
standpoint is the wrapped ice.
The Grades referred to are those suggested in the Ministry of Health's
Provisional Grades.
In addition to the samples referred to above, one sample was taken
of an Ice Lolly, which proved to be satisfactory.
Food and Drugs and Bacteriological Examinations
As in former years, the Food and Drugs samples were submitted to
Messrs. Bernard Dyer and Partners Ltd. (George Taylor, Esq., F.R.I.C.,
and Dr. J. H. Hammence, F.R.I.C.) of 20 Eastcheap, London, E.C.3, and
samples for bacteriological examination to The Counties Public Health
Laboratories (Roy C. Hoather, Esq., B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.San.I.,
W. A. Bullough, Esq., C.B.E., M.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., and Gordon
Miles, Esq., B.Sc., F.R.I.C., M.R.San.I.), 66 Victoria Street, London,
S.W.1. The Department is appreciative of the help given by these two
Laboratories during the year.
NEW LEGISLATION
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951
After some years of waiting for this Act to come into being, it became
law on 1st August, 1951, and was enforcable by Local Authorities from
three months after that date.
In July 1946 the Minister of Health presented to the House of Commons
the report of the Inter-departmental Committee on the Rag Flock
Acts. This report contained some 36 pages and was largely based on
evidence given by various trade and other bodies, including the Society
of Medical Officers of Health and the Sanitary Inspectors Association
This report was dated 12th April, 1946.
The Act makes it necessary for businesses using certain filling materials
to have their premises registered by a Local Authority. The filling material
referred to are rag flock, unwoven cotton, cotton linters, cotton millpuffs
and cotton felt, unwoven wool, woollen felt, woollen flock, jute, unwoven
synthetic fibres and synthetic fibre flock, hair, feathers or down, kapok
coir fibre, Algerian fibre, Mexican fibre and sisal, seaweed, seagrass, Spanish
moss, straw or chaff, and such other materials as may be prescribed.
It is an offence to have on such registered premises filling materials
to which the Act applies which are not clean.
Regulations made under the Act were issued, and came into operation
on 1st November, 1951, which prescribed standards of cleanliness. The
standards are too numerous, as can be imagined, to be reproduced here
Regulations also set out lists of analysts who will analyse samples submitted
by Local Authorities.
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