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ICE CREAM (Cont.)
79 samples were taken, details being as follows:Ice
Cream.
Grade 1. 67 90.6%
Grade 2. 5 6.85%
97.4%
Grade 3. 1 l.3%
Grade 4. 1 1.3%
2.6%
74
Iced Lollies
Grade 1. 5 100%
79
The public Health Laboratory Service advises that owing
to the numerous factors governing the hygienic quality of
ice-cream it is unwise to pay too much attention to the
bacteriological results on any single sample. Judgment
should be based rather on a series of samples. It is
suggested that over a six monthly period, 50%, of a vendor's
samples should fall into Grade 1, 80, into Grades 1 or 2,
not more than 20% into Grade 3, and none into Grade 4.
The results above show a slight improvement on those of
last year and indicate that the satisfactory standard referred
to in the last three reports is being maintained.
There are no manufacturers of ice cream within the Borough
but a few retailers produce their own iced lollies.
MOVEABLE DWELLINGS.
Thirty-seven licences to station and use moveable
dwellings (caravans) were granted during the year.
Twenty-four of the caravans are standing on the
Riverhill Estate which has been leased to a local Sports
Club. The remainder are stationed on odd sites throughout
the Borough.
The unlicensed site referred to in previous reports
was comulsorily acquired by the Council during the year
for housing purposes and steps were being taken to remove
the caravans.
DUSTBINS
Twenty-four dustbins were provided as a result of
5 statutory and 19 informal notices served.
The ambiguity of the Public Health Act which provides
that the local authority may require either the owner or
occupier of any building to provide a dustbin still gives
rise to difficulties necessitating a judicial decision by
the Council in all disputed coses.
None of the five cases so decided by the Council was
the subject of appeal to the Magistrates.
During the year the Council's scheme for the sale of
new dustbins was discontinued.
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