[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembroke Borough.

  • Pembroke (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Pembroke Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ice-cream 8 visits v/ere paid to premises licensed for the manufactures storage or sale of ice-cream. Here again advice as to the best methods of preparations storage and sale was given where necessary. ADULTERATION ETC.~ The bulk of the Pood and Drugs Act sampling is at present being carried out by the Weights and Measures Deportment of the County Council and by the Pembrokeshire Police. The Police are carrying out sampling in connection with milk adulteration while the Weights and Measures Department sample other foods. The following table shows that 42 samples of food other than milk were token in the Borough during the year: - Weights and Measures Department Home of Sample Beef Sausage 1 Beef Suet 2 Brisling 1 Butter 2 Coke & Pudding; Mixtures 2 Coffee 1 Condensed Milk 2 Cooking Fat 2 Custard Powder 1 Desiccated Coconut 1 Evaporated Milk 1 Fish Paste 2 Ground Almonds 1 Ham & Beef Roll 1 Roney 1 Jam 1 Fame of Sample ho-Taken Luncheon Meat 1 Malt Vinegar 1 Margarine 2 Meat Paste 1 Mint in Vinegar i Pastry Mixture 1 Processed Peas 1 Self Raising Flour 1 Soft Drinks 2 Soup 1 Sugar 1 Table Jelly 1 Tea 2 Tinned Beans 1 Tinned Fruit 2 Tinned Rhubarb 1 Ho. Taken All of these samples proved to be genuine with the exception of one sample of Self raising flour which was found to be infested with meal mite. The offending trader was cautioned. 17 packets of unsound foodstuffs were found to be unfit for human consumption and the traders agreed to remove them from sale. Pembrokeshire Police During the year 34 samples of milk were taken in the Borough by the police. Prosecutions were instit- uted ih 2 cases. food poisqhiho outbreaks I am glad to report that there was no outbreak of food poisoning during the year.