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FOOD, WATER, Etc.
The Market is inspected two or three times on every market
day, and other places and shops frequently.
During the year no food was discovered which appeared
intended for human consumption and was unfit for the purpose,
which is an improvement oh the previous year. In one
instance, however, I found some 80 lbs. of beef at the rear of
a butcher's shop, which had been removed from a refrigerator,
and was going bad. The same was declared to be not
intended for sale, and was surrendered. Such meat was destroyed
in the Council's destructor on the advice of the
Medical Officer of Health, to prevent the possibility of the
same being prepared and sold in the form of sausages.
59 samples of food were taken under the provisions of the
Acts, relating to the adulteration of food and drugs, and duly
submitted for analysis to the Public Analyst. None were
certified to he adulterated, but in six instances the samples
were slightly below the standard. In such cases the Health
Committee usually direct the vendors to be warned.
The kinds of food taken for analysis are those which are
mostly consumed, or lend themselves to fraudulent practices,,
viz. :—
Milk 18
Butter 22
Coffee 14
Miscellaneous 5
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