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The Notice reads as follows:—
"The Minister of Food gives notice in pursuance of the above-named Regulations, that he
hereby recognises the official certificates of which particulars are given in the Schedule thereto,
as showing (a) that the meat to which they relate or the meat from which the meat product to
which they relate was prepared, was derived from animals inspected ante and post mortem and
passed in accordance with criteria satisfactory to the Minister; and (b) that all necessary precautions
for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in the dressing and preparing
of the meat or meat product.
The certificates hereby recognised are in substitution for the certificates numbered (3) (4) (5)
and (6) reproduced in Part I of the Schedule to the notice published in the London Gazette of
the 15th March, 1938."
The certificates are as follows:—
1. A printed or branded stamp completed by the insertion of the Establishment for meat
and meat products, contained in wrappers, boxes, cases or barrels.
2. An embossed stamp completed by the insertion of the Establishment for tins containing
meat products.
3. An inscription in black paint on the wood of one of the lids of the barrel containing edible
fats and completed by the insertion of the number of the Establishment, the description of the
contents, the gross weight and tare and the month and year of manufacture.
4. Leaden tags 2 centimetres wide, to be fixed by a string to sausages and similar meat
products filled in casings and completed by the insertion of the number of the Establishment.
Circular MF 11 /52 of the Ministry of Food, dated 6th October, 1952, directs that the Minister
caused to be published in the London Gazette of the 26th September, 1952, a notice, containing in
the Schedule thereto, the description of a certificate issued by the Republic of Turkey which has been
recognised as an Official Certificate for the purposes of the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations,
1937 and 1948.
The Notice reads as follows:—
"The Minister of Food gives notice in pursuance of the above-named Regulations that he
hereby recognises the Official Certificate of which particulars are given in the Schedule thereto
as showing (a) that the meat from which the meat product to which the certificate relates was
prepared, was derived from animals inspected ante and post mortem and passed in accordance
with criteria satisfactory to the Minister; and (b) that all necessary precautions for the prevention
of danger to public health were taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of the meat product.
The certificate being in the form of a label, recognition will apply only if the la bel is securely
affixed to the package containing the meat product and the label has not in any other circumstances
been used as an Official Certificate."
The certificate is in respect of animal casings only and will be completed by the insertion of the
serial number of the certificate, the number of the Establishment and by the stamp of the appropriate
veterinary department.
DANGEROUS DRUGS.
During the year twenty-six certificates authorising the purchase of scheduled Dangerous Drugs
were issued under the Dangerous Drugs (No. 3) Regulations, 1923, amending the Dangerous Drugs
Regulations, 1921, Regulation 15 of which is as follows:—
"If a foreign ship in any port in Great Britain requires to obtain a supply of any of the
drugs in order to complete the necessary equipment of the ship, the master of the ship is authorised
to purchase and be in possession of such quantity of any of the drugs as may be certified by the
Medical Officer of Health of the Port where the ship is (or in his absence by the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health) to be necessary for the purpose, the quantity not to exceed what is required for
the use of the ship until it next reaches its home port. The certificate given by the Medical Officer
of Health of the Port shall be marked by the supplier with the date of the supply, and shall be
retained by him and kept available for inspection."
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936. PART X CANAL BOATS.
On the 31st January, 1953, the Port Medical Officer made a report on the steps taken to carry
into effect the provisions of Part X of the Public Health Act, 1936, relating to Canal Boats within the
district of the Port Health Authority, during the year ended 31st December, 1952.
Thirty-six vessels were inspected during the year of which twenty-five were found to conform
with the Regulations.
The remaining eleven infringed the Regulations in respect of absence of certificate, marking,
painting and dilapidation. In each case the owners attention was called to the infringement and all
w ere subsequently attended to.
No new boats were registered during the year under review, the actual number of Canal Boats
on the Register on the 31st December, 1952, being 156.
PARROTS (PROHIBITION OF IMPORT) (REVOCATION) REGULATIONS, 1951.
The above-mentioned Regulations came into force on the 8th January, 1952.
These Regulations revoke the Parrots (Prohibition of Import) Regulations, 1930, and a circular
from the Ministry of Health accompanying the Regulations, reads as follows:—
"1. I am directed by the Minister of Health to say that he has been considering the need
for retaining these Regulations which were made following a world-wide outbreak of psittacosis
among birds of the parrot species.
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