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ICE CREAM.
(i) Registration:
159 premises are registered by the Council under
Section 16, Pood & Drugs Act, 1955, as under:-
For manufacture, storage and sale 3
For manufacture, storage and sale
"but manufacture to "be limited to
icedlollies 5
For storage and sale but not
manufac ture 151
(ii) Samples:
72 samples were taken, details being as follows:Ice
Cream.
Grade 1 69 98.57%
100%
Grade 2 1 1.43%
Grade 3 Nil
Grade 4 Nil
70 i
Iced Lollies.
Grade 1 2
72 100%
The Public Health Laboratory Service advised 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. Judgement should he 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 that a very high standard of hygienic
quality is being maintained both by manufacturers and retailers.
There is now no ice-cream manufactured within the Borough.
CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956.
The Council gave further consideration to the provisions of this
Act and its complementary orders and regulations, particularly the
procedure for making smoke control orders.
The following resolutions of the Public Health Committee were
confirmed by the Council:-
(i) That the decision contained in minute 463 (k) (i) be
re-affirmed, namely that this Committee are entirely
in sympathy with the object of the Clean Air Act, 1956,
to abate the pollution of the air; that in present
circumstances, particularly the shortage of smokeless
fuels, they do not consider that they are justified
in recommending formal action to create smoke control
areas within the borough, but that the matter be kept
under review, and the burgesses encouraged voluntarily
to adopt the use of smokeless fuels and adapt their
existing fireplaces where necessary;
(ii) That the Ministry of Housing and Local Government be
informed of the decision in (i) above, and asked whether
there is any likelihood of an increase in the supplies
of smokeless fuels in the near future.
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