View report page

Contaminated Foodstuffs. Five complaints of foreign
objects in cakes, bread, jam and other foods were received. All
were carefully investigated and, where appropriate, action was
taken—mostly by informal letter.
MEAT INSPECTION
During the war the old registered slaughterhouse at 129
High Street, Merton, was occupied as part of the Trafalgar
Pig Club and slaughtering took place on Sundays, both of
their own pigs and those of nearby Clubs. The premises were
vacated on the 31st March, 1954, and subsequently demolished.
Only 8 pigs were slaughtered and were all passed as fit for
human consumption.
MILK SUPPLY
The new Morden Processing Depot of the Express Dairy
Co. Ltd. came into operation in April and the many consultations
between the firm and your officers over recent years
during the planning contributed to a most satisfactory start.
Processing was quickly stepped up to 55,000 gallons per
day with a daily production of almost 500,000 bottles of various
capacities. Weekly inspections of the plant and sampling have
gradually been reduced to monthly visits and sampling. It
is supplemented, of course, by the normal sampling off the
round during delivery. This monthly inspection has proved
adequate in conjunction with spot checks on the previous
month's temperature recordings and the facility extended by
the company of inspecting the records of the sampling done
by there own laboratory staff at the Depot.
There are no producers of milk registered within the
district. 144 inspections were made of dairies and milkshops
in 1954, and at the end of the year there were on the register 26
distributors and 5 dairies, of which three were large distribution
depots handling only milk in bottles or sealed drums.
34