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Under the Milk (Special Designations) Orders, forty-eight
principal licences (including five in respect of pasteurising establishments
and one in respect of a tuberculin-tested bottling establishment)
and seven supplementary licences were granted. One
hundred and fifty-eight samples were taken of milk sold under
Special Designations and thirteen of these were found not to conform
to the requirements of the Orders. The vendors of these were
warned and such advice given as should rectify the cause of the
adverse reports.
The practice of submitting all samples of pasteurised milk to
the Phosphatase Test was again followed and the thirteen samples
reported positive by this test were subsequently examined for
tubercle bacilli with negative results.
Premises required to be registered under Section 14 of the Food
and Drugs Act, 1938, were inspected and at the end of the year the
number of premises remaining on the register were:—
(a) Manufacture, storage or sale of ice cream 411
(b) Other premises required to be registered (the
preparation or manufacture of sausages or
potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food) ... 154
In no case was it necessary to refuse registration or remove any
premises from the register.
The names and addresses of 102 persons remained on the
Council's list of persons entitled to sell poisons under Part 2 of the
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1938. No action was necessary in
respect of any offence under the Act.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD.
There was no reduction in the number of samples taken for
analysis, which included
(a) Formal Samples:— Genuine. Adulterated. Total.
Milk 225 6 231
Various Foods 697 14 711
(b) Informal Samples:—
Various Foods 8 10 18
Warnings were given to the vendors of eleven of the adulterated
formal samples and in nine instances legal proceedings were taken,
six of these relating to milk and three to other foods. These proceedings
resulted in fines amounting to £29 Os. Od. and £15 15s. Od.
costs being imposed on the offenders. Formal samples were