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Inspection of Food
The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or
unwholesome and unfit for human food were surrendered and destroyed
or so disposed of as to prevent them from being used for human food:
Cake and biscuits 296 lbs. Meat 2,927 lbs. 9 ozs.
Cereals and flour 59 lbs. 1 oz. Milk 820 lbs. 5 ozs.
Cheese 72 lbs. 2 ozs. Mincemeat 3 lbs. 14 ozs.
Coffee and Chicory 4 ozs. Paste, meat 4 ozs.
Egg. dried 2 lbs. Pickles 5 lbs. 9 ozs.
Fish 318 lbs. 11 ozs. Pudding and cake
Fruit 963 lbs. 15 ozs. mixture 27 lbs. 8 ozs.
Fruit juice and drink 3 lbs. 2 ozs. Soup 134 lbs.
Jam 72 lbs. 8 ozs. Spaghetti 3 lbs. 8 ozs.
Jelly and blancmange 24 lbs. Syrup 11 lbs. 11 ozs.
Macaroni 179 lbs. Vegetables 1,140 lbs. 4 ozs.
Total weight 3 tons, 3 cwts., 9 lbs., 3 ozs.
Inspection of Food Premises
Details of the visits of inspection of food premises and the resulting
remedial action taken are shown in Table 9.
Food Hygiene
The work of education in food hygiene and particularly of those
engaged in the handling of food for the public is a slow and unremitting
task. Freedom from injurious contamination is dependent on two main
factors, adequate equipment and facilities for the preparation and storage
of food and a strict hygienic code of practice and behaviour on the part
of the food handler. Necessary as is proper equipment, it is of no avail
unless used with a knowledge of the ways in which infection can be
introduced and with a constant and conscientious effort to translate
that knowledge into hygienic practice.
Every opportunity is taken under the various statutory powers by
the sanitary staff, both verbally and by informative leaflets, to ensure
that not only are food premises well equipped, but that the paramount
importance of strict personal hygiene in the handling of food and food
equipment is impressed upon management and employees alike.
Food is especially vulnerable to contamination when displayed for
sale in the open air. In 1950 the Council secured bye-laws to control the
conditions of sale of food in this way. Some 300 inspections were made
during the year of stalls and vehicles, and notices were served in respect
of 13 infringements, as follows:
Food storage in roadway 1
No name and address on stall or vehicle 1
Lack of cleanliness or contamination of food 11
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