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Food Inspection.—Each of the 12 Inspectors is required to
inspect the food shops and slaughter-houses in his district. In
addition to these, the Food Inspector who devotes the greater part
of his time to the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
is charged equally with the other Inspectors with the duty of safeguarding
the sale of food in market streets and other premises where
dietary articles are exposed for sale.
In the appendix to this report will be found a list of unsound
food seized as unfit and unwholesome at its time of exposure for sale,
or condemned without formal seizure under Section 117 Public Health
Act, 1875.
Legal procedings were instituted during the year in one case
under the above section in which the defendant was charged with
exposing Tomatoes for sale unfit for human food, the fine imposed
being £1 including costs.
The "American Gooseberry Mildew (Fruit) Order, 1912," issued
last year by the Board of Agriculture with the object of detecting
the disease of sphaerotheca mors-uvœ which particularly affects that
fruit, continued to have the attention of the Inspectors.
An application was received during the summer from a large firm
of importers of South American Tongues for arrangements to be made
by the Council to permit the Inspectorial Staff to examine Tongues
at the Factory instead of their being examined at the Port of
Entry. The Council were unable to make special arrangements for
this purpose as they would be practically carrying out the duties
of the Port Sanitary Authority at the expense of the official
inspection within the Borough.
Inspection of Bakehouses and Fishshops.—This is
also carried out by the Inspectors, particular attention being directed
to the regular removal of offal and trade refuse, which is carried out
by private contractors.