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Agricultural Produce (Grading and M0arking) Act, 1928.—All
retailers selling food that is required to be marked by the Orders
made under this Act have been notified by leaflet of this requirement.
Letters of warning were addressed to traders, principally stallholders,
in 97 instances where it was found that the requirements
of the Orders were not being fully observed.
One stall-holder was prosecuted during the year for:—
(a) exposing for sale imported apples without indicating
upon a show ticket the place of origin;
(b) exposing for sale, as above, imported raw tomatoes;
and
(c) failing to have his name and address displayed on
the stall.
The defendant was ordered to pay costs of 10s. 6d. in respect
of each of the three summonses.
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food.—The
names of the laboratories at which this work is performed on behalf
of the Council are given on page 32 of this Report.
FOOD POISONING.
Section 7 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1932, requires any medical practitioner attending on any person,
if he suspects or becomes aware that such person is suffering from
food poisoning, to notify the Medical Officer of Health and to give
particulars of the food poisoning from which such person is
suspected to be suffering.
Twenty-three notifications were received from the 2nd September
to the end of the year, and the food suspected to be the cause
of illness was as follows:—Baked Beans, 1; Rabbit, 1; Lamb
sandwiches, 1; Tomatoes, 1; Figs, 1; Toffee apple, 1; Tinned fruit,
1; Fish, 8; Mixed grill, 1; Pork, 1; Pork and Rabbit, 1; not
ascertained, 5.
Every case notified has been very carefully investigated, and
from the reports it would seem that over-large or unsuitable meals
had been taken in the majority of the cases.
In no case was the patient seriously ill, but it is interesting
to note the observations of the Food Inspector at the time of his
enquiry into each case notified.