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The baths waters are treated by continuous filtration and breakpoint chlorination.
While baths' staff do everything to maintain a 'safe" standard of bath water bathers
could assist very materially by the observance of strict personal hygiene. During the
year 7 samples of baths water were taken and all were found to be satisfactory.
VERMINOUS PREMISES AND ARTICLES. On request, one house and its contents were
treated for verminous infestation
VERMINOUS PERSONS. Two verminous persons were cleansed under the provisions of
Section 85 of the Public Health Act, 1936 During the year 4 children in attendance at
schools in the Borough were found to be verminous and because of the failure of parents
to take necessary action 2 of these children had to be cleansed by the School Health
Department.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951. This Act is designed to regulate the sale of pet animals
and the main provision is that no person shall keep a pet shop except under the authority
of a licence granted in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Under the provisions
of this Act 7 premises in the Borough have been licensed and 8 visits of inspection
were made during the year
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
MILK At the end of the year, there were 43 distributors registered under the
Milk and Dairies Regulations. During the year 38 inspections were made at dairies and
retail purveyors' premises.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Special Areas) Order, 1951, came into operation
on 1st October, 1951 This Order defined the County of Middlesex as an area in which
the use of a special designation becomes obligatory for the purpose of all sales of
milk by retail for human consumption (other than a catering sale). The special designations
permitted are 'sterilised , 'pasteurised' and 'tuberculin tested'.
Eleven complaints were received of dirty milk bottles In two cases a warning
letter was sent.
ICE CREAM Under the Pood and Drugs Act, premises used for the sale or the
manufacture for the purpose of sale, of ice-cream, or the storage of ice-cream intended
for sale must be registered. This does not apply to premises used primarily
as a club, hotel, inn or restaurant and only to a theatre, cinematograph theatre, music
hall or concert hall if the ice-cream is manufactured on the premises The number of
premises registered at the end of the year was 254
The ice-Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations require all ice-cream except
complete cold-mix powders, to be heat treated with a view to killing any pathogenic
organisms which may be present and lay down the temperatures at which mixtures are
to be kept before and after heat treatment - these temperatures are such as to discourage
bacterial growth.
The Regulations also require that ice-cream shall be protected from dirt, dust
or other contamination The enforcement of these Regulations calls for regular and
persistent supervision of premises, plant and methods of manufacturing and handling.
During the year, 81 inspections of registered premises were carried out. The
following results were obtained from the bacteriological examination of samples:-
Satisfactory Doubtful Unsatisfactory
Ice-cream 55 4 6
The percentage of doubtful and unsatisfactory samples was 15.0 as compared with
17.1 in I960.
All the unsatisfactory samples were associated with one producer making ice-cream
at premises outside the Borough The local authority concerned took the necessary action.
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