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Two butchery companies were prosecuted for delivering Canadian pigs' liver falsely
described as "English" to a County Council establishment. The first company was fined a total
of £35 and ordered to pay £5.5.0d costs and the second company was ordered to pay a total of £40
in fines and also ordered to pay £5.5.0d costs.
Twenty summonses were issued against a further company for selling Uruguay meat falsely
described as Argentine. Fines totalling £20 were imposed andan order was made for the payment
of £5.5.0d costs.
Two further companies were prosecuted for similar offences and fines of £20 and £35 were
imposed and costs of £2.2.0d and £5.5.0d were ordered to be paid.
Two official cautions were also issued for similar offences.
It will be apparent that there was a high incidence of this type of offence in the Borough of
Tottenham during the early months of 1960. Further inspections since these prosecutions have
revealed a considerable improvement in the labelling and marking of butchers' meat.
False and Misleading Descriptions
Food advertisements and labels have been scrutinised for false and misleading statements
and descriptions. Corrective action taken within the whole area of the County has equal effect
in each county district, and work under this heading is combined with inspections made under
the terms of the Merchandise Marks Acts and the Labelling of Food Order. Examples where
corrective action was sought are set out as follows:-
Oranges, tangerines and grapefruit were described as "seedless" but were found to contain
seeds.
Television and press advertisements falsely suggested that a cheese was a "Cream Cheese".
Advertisements which falsely suggested a fruit content for sweets were challenged, and the
labelling of further sweets for which an alcohol content was claimed was also challenged and
amended.
CONTROL OF DISEASE
The incidence of notifiable disease was low in 1960, with no cases of diphtheria, meningococcal
infection or typhoid fever and only one case of poliomyelitis. Altogether 791 notifications
were received compared with 1550 in 1959 and 985 in 1958.
Tuberculosis
Notification of new cases continued at the rate which has been experienced in recent years
although the figure 92 shows an increase of 6 on the previous year. Eighty three of the new cases
(51 males and 32 females) had lung infections and the remaining 9 (1 male and 8 females) had
involvement of the meninges in 1 case, lymphatic glands in 3 cases, joints in 4 cases and kidney
in 1 case.