[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Glossop Borough.

Glossop (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1915

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Four hundred and seventy-three visits have been made during the year to the places where other foods were in course of preparation, or were exposed for sale for the food of man, such as tripe-dressers, cow heel establishments, pork butchers, blood pudding, Yorkshire duck, sausage and brawn makers. Many visits have also been made to fish dealers’, chip potatoes, peas and bean shops, and to ice cream makers’ establishments. As much time as is possible is given to this class of work, but owing to the large number of such places, and of the slaughter-houses, which are all over the town, it is physically impossible to inspect every animal slaughtered, and every class of food prepared for consumption in the Borough. FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875—1912. During the year sixty-five samples of Food and Drugs have been obtained and submitted to the Public Analyst (J. White, Esq., Derby), for analysis, as follows, viz. :—46 samples of milk (two were broken in transit), 3 samples of butter, 1 of lard, 2 of cream of tartar, 2 of flowers of sulphur, 2 of tartaric acid, 3 of bicarbonate of soda, 3 of borax, and 3 of margarine. Eight samples of milk were reported by him as being adulterated with water or for being deficient in milk fat. Two of these were informal samples. In five cases the vendors were prosecuted and convicted, and in one case the Committee considered that a warning would be sufficient. Four other samples were slightly deficient but were so near the standard that the Analyst passed them “ as genuine but of slightly inferior quality.” The Inspector warned the vendors in these cases.