In addition the following samples of Food and Drugs were taken:
Bean curd 4, Bran 1, Bread 7, Butter 7, Cheese 3, Chewing gum 1, Flour 18, Ghee 17, Lard 2, Oats 1, Peanut oil 3, Purico 1, Skimmed milk 8, Sugar 1, Raspberries 3, Strawberries 2, Tinned sauerkraut 1, Tinned cherries 1, Loganberry 1 and Wheat 3.
Prosecutions were undertaken in 9 cases where the samples failed to satisfy the legal requirements.
Some thirty samples of ice and a similar number of samples of ice cream were taken during the year. The standard of bacteriological purity in some cases left much to be desired.
2. The following foodstuffs were seized and destroyed under Section 82 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance:—
Fruit 4,200 tins and bottles, Fish 271 tins and bottles, Vegetables 439 tins and 1 catty (fresh), Meat 49 tins, Flour 195 packages, Jam 241 tins, Jelly 8 slabs, Milk 7,866 tins, Beer 3 bottles, Biscuits 22 tins, Butter 5 tins, Bran 1 carton, Cocoa 1 tin, Chocolate 1 lb., Cheese 3 tins, Oats 1,426 lbs. and 1 carton and 590 miscellaneous packages of various goods.
21st February, 1935.
G. W. POPE, Medical Officer of Health.