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PROSECUTION .
Successful proceedings wore instituted against a firm of
dairymen for delivering milk in a bottle containing foreign matter
to a private consumer. The defendants wore fined £5 with special
costs amounting to £3.3.0.
ICE CREAM
At the end of 1948, 117 promises had been registered in
accordance with Section 14 of the Food & Drugs Act 1938. On five
of these premises ice cream could be manufactured.
ICE CREAM SAMPLING

In all cases the Manufacturer.. or the Dealer has been
notified of the sample grading result. This procedure has
created a desire on the part of the producers and dealers to
adopt more stringent measures, in order to produce a bacteriologically
free product and thus attain higher gradings.
MEAT AND OTHER FOODS
The 55 Butchers shops within the Borough have been
inspected, and observation kept upon tho vehicles used for the
convoyance of meat, with the result that it has been found that
the provisions of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations have been
generally well observed. Necessary action was taken in 13 cases
where the sanitary conditions were not satisfactory, or certain
contraventions of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations 1924 existed.
At the end of 1948, 47 premises had been registered in
accordance with Section 14 of the Food & Drugs Act 1938. The
majority of the registered premises are concerned with the manufacture
of sausages only. 103 cases of insanitary or defective
conditions in food shops, other than butchers' shops, were dealt
with.
There is one licenced slaughterhouse in the district.
The only animals slaughtered during the year have boon
3 pigs from pig clubs slaughtered under licences issued by the
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