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In consultation with the Port Health staff one of the major meat importing companies has improved
its meat cutting store in the Victoria Dock. Two band saws, which were unsuitably
situated, have been removed and one of them re-instated with drainage in a newly constructed
cutting room. A new hot water supply has been installed for washing down the premises and equipment
with suitable provision ffull operation by the latter part of the year. To implement and maintain the requirements of these
Regulations in the Docks has demanded tenacity tempered with patience during a period when the
Port has been passing through various stages of modification and sensitive industrial relations.
However, improvements in facilities for dock workers who handle unprotected foods, particularly
meat, may result from a different approach to the method of employing dock labour. It may
be possible then for employers to provide changing rooms, washing facilities, toilets and protective
clothing in purpose designed buildings which will do much to improve working conditions and hy
giene in general.
FOOD INSPECTION
The total amount of foodstuffs detained for examination and either condemned as unfit for
human consumption and destroyed or otherwise disposed of under guarantee and supervision was
5,529 tons. 15 cwts. 0 qrs. 2 lbs.

Items marked * were released with the agreement of and under the supervision of local medical
officers of health.