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Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955
During the year 2,939 visits were made to food premises under
these regulations and' at 243 premises contraventions were found.
As a result of action taken, 246 contraventions were remedied,
and the table on page gives details of this work.
It was found necessary to take legal proceedings for contraventions
of the regulations in two cases. A grocer was fined £2. in
respect of each of six summonses together with £5. 5s. 0d. costs,
and a stall keeper selling fish was fined £7. 10s. 0d.
By reason of special circumstances, two certificates of
exemption were granted under the regulations. One was in respect
of premises without a wash-hand basin and an adequate supply of
hot and cold water or of hot water at a suitably controlled temperature;
the other was where a room communicating directly with a
sleeping place was being used for handling open food.
Twenty-seven complaints were received about unsound food
bought from retailers in the Borough. Details of the complaints
are given below:
1. Foreign body in bread 14. Mouldy pork pie
2. Bad tin of pineapple 15. Bad pigs head
3. Beetle in loaf 16. Foreign body in milk
4. Moths in packet of Vitamin B 17. Foreign body in milk
Invalid food
18. Bad tin of ham
5. Paraffin-smelling cheese
19. Jubbly drink not fit for
6. Bad turkey human consumption
7. Dirty loaf 20. Black object in milk
8. Bread unfit to eat 21. Piece of wire in loaf
9. Unsound milk 22. Bad sausages
10. Bad bacon 23. Button in bun
11. Watch in sausage 24. Bad luncheon meat
12. Bad tinned goods 25. Unsound meat
13. Mouldy loaf 26. Rank bacon
27. Bad tin of pineapple
6 cases were reported to the Public Health Committee, and in
each case a warning letter was sent to the offender. It was not
found necessary to institute legal proceedings.
Petroleum Installations
In March, 1958, the Corporation approved new conditions of
licence and principles of construction for premises where petroleum
is stored. These were based on recommendations issued by the
Home Office. The change involved a considerable amount of work by
the inspectors on their districts and by the office staff, but we
now have a set of up-to-date regulations and of a type likely
to be found throughout the country. I would like to acknowledge
the assistance which was received from the Town Clerk and his staff
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