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(4) Medical Priorities
Many applications for re-housing are supported by Medical Certificates, and the
applications receive special consideration in accordance with the medical evidence submitted.
Medical Certificates are received either through the Housing Officer or direct
from family doctors or hospital clinical staff.
In order to preserve a uniform standard of judgement all applications are dealt
with by the Deputy Medical Officer of Health.
After the preliminary screening the number of cases requiring further investigation
has been reduced to a minimum and only 146 cases required visits by either the Health
Visitor or Public Health Inspector.
2. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
(1) Food Inspection
Eighty-seven complaints alleging unfitness in food sold or exposed for sale were
received during the year.
Investigations showed, as in previous years, that many of these complaints arise
because of the failure of the food trader to turn over stock in a proper manner.
Retailers were again reminded, by letter, early in the summer, of the value of
adopting a system of visual aid coding for deliveries of pre-packed perishable foods;
such a system enables the retailer to be quite sure when the "shelf-life" of the product
has expired and such foods can then be withdrawn from sale and destroyed.
Legal proceedings were instituted in nine cases with the following results :
1. A grocer was fined £20 with £3 3s. 0d. costs for selling a mouldy pork pie.
2. A bakery was fined £10 with £3 3s. 0d. costs for selling a loaf of bread
taining a copper rivet head.
3. A bakery was fined £20 with £5 5s. 0d. costs for selling a loaf of bread
taining a soiled adhesive dressing.
4. A delicatessen was fined £10 with £5 5s. 0d. costs for selling mouldy sausages.
5. A restaurant was fined £10 with £4 4s. 0d. costs for selling a flapjack
ing pieces of glass.
6. A restaurant was fined £15 with £5 5s. 0d. costs for selling a meal containing
an earwig.
7. A bakery was fined £30 with £10 10s. 0d. costs for selling a loaf of bread
taining a piece of string.
8. A bakery was fined £15 with £10 10s. 0d. costs for selling a loaf of bread
taining pieces of glass.
9. A grocer was fined £20 with £10 10s. 0d. costs for selling rotten eggs.
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