[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Crosby Borough.

  • Crosby (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Crosby Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LANCASHIRE Inspection and Supervision of Food COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT 1951. Section 14 of this Act, which has been adopted by the Corporation, provides for the registration of hawkers of food and premises used by them for storage. These premises are regularly inspected, and all pract- icable control is exercised over the hawkers themselves. ICE CREAM. All premises at which ice-cream is manufactured or sold wcie regular- ly inspected, 229 visits being made during the year. In addition, 60 samples were taken for bacteriological examination. Samples were submitted to a methylene blue reduction test, and divided into four grades, in accordance with a provisional grading system recom- mended by the Ministry of Health. As a working basis, the Ministry have suggested that 50% of the samples from any one source should fall into grade 1, 80% into grades 1 and 2, and none into grade 4. No claims for the infallibility of this test are made by the Ministry, but it forms a useful adjunct to regular inspection, and helps the Sanitary Inspectors to concentrate their efforts on endeavouring to improve the technique of the less satisfactory producers and retailers. When sampling ice-cream it is the Sanitary Inspectors practice to devote special attention to the less satisfactory sources of supply, and to take immediate repeat ’ samples when the original sample is placed in grade 3 or 4. Sixty samples were submitted to the ‘methylene blue’ test and of these 43 were placed in grade one, 11 in grade two, 6 in grade three, and none in grade four. MEAT AND OTHER FOODS al,Tnhfe insPection °f food premises is carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors rr*q?Ufications- sh°ps.'STS constant supervision. PKpmd’ ^ COnv^d or arc kept under th;s work thc foiiowing made; Butchers Shops, 230 inspections. Othct Food Shops, Vehicles and Premises, 982 inspections. milk supply. There are in of milk, which