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for consumption represent only a small percentage of the total
quantity that it was necessary to examine, sometimes under very
difficult conditions and circumstances that permitted of no delay.
Practically all the fats and a large part of the sugar included in the
figures given below were salvaged for further refining and
reconditioning for manufacturing purposes, and in those cases
where no possibility of use for human needs remained the material
was passed on for manufacture into animal feeding products,
fertilisers, and for other commercial uses. Only a very small
amount, probably less than 10 per cent, of the total, was destroyed
as, for instance, in those cases where the food had been damaged
by mineral oils, disinfectants or bleaching compounds.

The Ministry of Food Meat Depot at Shore Road, which
supplies meat and offal to this and five neighbouring Boroughs,
needed frequent attention and visits.
The four market streets, although depleted as compared with
pre-war years, required constant supervision to maintain satisfactory
standards of cleanliness and the soundness of the food exposed for
sale for human consumption.
Only one notification of food poisoning was received. The
patient, a child of two years, was admitted to hospital and
b. aertrycke was grown from a specimen of faeces. The child was