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FOOD SUPPLY.
As far as possible, watch is kept on premises where
food-stuffs are prepared or sold, which includes
slaughterhouses, butchers' and fishmongers' shops, bakehouses,
dairies, cowsheds, etc.
This entailed 205 visits. Places where ice-cream is
prepared are visited, but these are very few, the great
proportion of the ice-cream sold in the District being
manufactured by large firms outside and distributed to
shops for sale or retailed in the street from carrier
cycles.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations have worked
smoothly. The number of animals slaughtered in the
District continues to decrease year by year. This is
reflected in the small amount of foodstuffs found to be
unfit. Notice of slaughter has always been given, so
that it can be safely said that all animals slaughtered
locally are inspected before being exhibited for sale.
Most of other meat sold has been previously inspected
at Smithfield or elsewhere.
Stalls or vehicles from which food is retailed have
been non-existent.
The following foodstuffs were found to be unfit for
food and destroyed :—
5 Stones Haddocks
Decomposed.
1 Box Kippers
There now remain only two slaughterhouses in the
district—one registered and one licensed. Only the
latter has been used during the year.
HOUSING ACT, 1936.
Overcrowding.
As I indicated in my Annual Report for 1936, a compulsory
order for the purchase of land at the rear of
Franks Avenue was confirmed by the Minister of Health
early in the year. Later arbitration proceedings were held
to fix the purchase price.