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5. Exhibit notices in shops prohibiting the handling
of small joints by customers.
6. It is very desirable that all meat should be
wrapped in clean white paper or preferably
grease-proof paper, when being sent out or
handed to customers.
In the main these were accepted by the butchers, with
the exception that while numbers of shops were already
provided with glass fronts, the cost of structural alterations
to other shops would be too great, and further that loss of
business would result.
This suggestion, therefore, was not agreed to, as the
Regulations did not make it compulsory.
Generally speaking, the Regulations have certainly
caused a marked improvement in the precautions taken to
protect meat from contamination, although it has been found
necessary to warn one or two butchers since the Regulations
came into force.
Cards for display in the butchers' shops in the district,
requesting customers not to handle the meat, were provided
by the Council.

(c) Unsound Food.—Particulars of unsound food
seized or surrendered during the year is set out on page 28.
Bakehouses, fried fish shops, dining rooms, etc., were visited
periodically, and inspections of shops and stalls where food is
exposed for sale are made from time to time.
(d) Food Poisoning.—One case of supposed food
poisoning only was reported and investigated, and this has
already been referred to under the heading of " Chemical
Work," on page 20.
(e) Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.—Although the Council