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Unsound food condemned by Magistrates:—
Tea—100 lbs.
Contained dirt and
iron filing's.
Fined £3 and £2/2/costs.
Tea dust—61bs. do. Fined £2 and £1/1/-
costs.
Bacon—45 lbs. Unsound. Fined £10.
Rabbits—31bs. do. Fined £3 and £2/2/-
costs.
Food Protection and Cleanliness.—Approximately 50 per cent,
of the butchers in the Borough have glass fronts to their shops.
Six shops were provided with glass fronts during the year.
This problem of food protection and cleanliness is partly in
the hands of the public.
In shops where the better class of trade is done, there is not
so much need to expose meat outside as in shops that do a
cheaper trade. In the cheaper trade the customer desires to
observe the nature and price of the article before purchasing.
There is verv little prospect of butchers in or near market
streets voluntarily providing glass fronts to their premises while
owners of meat stalls are allowed to sell meat from stalls that,
although protected at back, top and sides, are open at the front.
Some examples of Food Contamination found during
the year.
Apples and Confectionery.—Sold outside places of entertainment,
and the stock kept in a bed-living room occupied by man,
wife and two children, the children suffering from chicken-pox.
Poultry.—Stored prior to sale in bedroom and sold in private
passage-way into which two bedrooms open.
Bananas.—Found hanging to ripen in shop parlour. The
fruit was infested with bed-bugs.