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23
FOOD SUPPLY.
As far as practicable watch is kept on premises where
foodstuffs are prepared or sold, which includes butchers' and
fishmongers' shops, bakehouses, dairies, restaurant kitchens, etc.
Various sections of this report deal with foods and make it
unnecessary to report more fully under this head.
The following unfit foodstuffs were voluntarily surrendered
and destroyed or handed over for salvage
Fish, wet 336 lbs.
Fish 13 tins
Eggs 114
Fruit 285 tins
Vegetables 144 tins
Beans, baked 13 tins
Tea 7 lbs.
Sugar 4 lbs.
Milk, condensed, evaporated, etc. 26 tins
Dried fruit 120½ lbs.
Confectionery 2 lbs.
Irish chicken 13 lbs.
Boiling fowls 4
Sponges, jam, etc., 56
Jam or marmalade 13 tins
Soups, various 6 tins
Luncheon meat 43 tins
Potato, dried 1¾ lbs.
Raisins 23 lbs.
Braised steak 4 tins
Jellies 4
Gammon, cooked 6 lbs.
Ham, tinned 15 tins
Mincement 6 tins
Veal, jellied 47 lbs.
Lemonade powder 1 lb.
Chutney 66 tins
Cake mixture 1 pkt.
Oats and cereals 5 pkts.
Flour 4 bags
Soft roes 24 lbs.
Sausages 17 tins
Pork sausage 60 lbs.
Pork butts 17 tins
Beef 206 lbs.
Pork 5 lbs.
Mutton or lamb 136½ lbs.
Mutton, cooked 176 lbs.
Bacon 23 lbs.
A number of complaints regarding foodstuffs was received during
the year, some of which are worth recording :—
(1) A tea cake was found to have some discolouration in the interior
and, moreover, was alleged to have caused sickness and dizziness after
being eaten. The Public Analyst, however, certified that the discolouration
was of an entirely innocent nature and he could find nothing to account for
the sickness.