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Evaporated or Condensed Milk 336 tins
Jam and Marmalade 69 tins
Tomato Juice 6 tins
Grape Fruit Juice 6 tins
Coffee 6 bottles
Beans 69 tins
Prem 13 tins
Strained Foods 10 tins
Minced Beef or Veal Loaf 26 tins
Meat or Fish Paste 122 jars
Vegetables and Fruit 459 tins
Soup 177 tins
Spaghetti 13 tins
Puddings 6 tins
Mutton Hash 2 tins
Meat Lunch 3 tins
Eggs 1,462
Potted Meat 1 tin
Bacon 4 tins
Pork Sausages 1 tin
Beef 206½ lbs.
Lamb 131 lbs.
Offal 4 lbs.
Carcase of Pig 12 stone
Oatmeal and Porridge Oats 54 packets
Dried Egg 5 tins
Cream Chocolate Blocks 23 bars
M & V Ration 2 tins
Stewed Steak 5 tins
Syrup 9 tins
Semolina 4 packets
Malted Food 81 tins
Cheese 25 lbs.
Baking Powder 3 packets
A number of complaints regarding foodstuffs were received during
the year, some of which are worth recording.
(1) A piece of bread was brought to my office in which was a
small beetle. A visit to the bakery and an examination of the flour
disclosed one infested sack. A sample was submitted to the Public
Analyst and the beetles were identified as triboleum castaneum or red
rust flour beetles. These are a common form of flour beetle which
frequently develop in flour during storage. The affected flour was immediately
withdrawn from use and no further action was considered
necessary.
(2) Another complaint was received regarding the presence of
some fibres in flour. The complainant was unwilling to press the matter
and preferred to take it up privately with the seller. I did, however,
send a sample to the Public Analyst who found that it contained a number
of jute fibres which might have been removed accidentally from a
typical flour sack. This was considered a purely adventitious occurrence.
(3) The presence of two pieces of foreign matter in a piece of
bread formed the basis of another complaint, it being thought that these
were rat 'dirts'. The Public Analyst, however, found that this was not
so and the trouble was found to be due to a little grease which had
gained access from the arm of the dough mixing machine. Occasional
accidental contamination of this character is difficult to avoid.