[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough.
- Newport (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ice Cream Manufacturers and Vendors. Premises where ice cream is manufactured or sold are inspected at trequent intervals, care being taken to ensure that the utmost clean- liness is maintained in the preparation, handling and storage of this commodity. ^ Where premises are found to be quite unsuitable for the manu- lacture or sale of ice cream, owing to unsuitable structure, dilapidations, unsuitable or unwholesome condition, the existence of which would render the ice cream liable to become contaminated, the vendor or manu- facturer is warned that until the premises are put into a satisfactory condition, permission will be withheld for the manufacture or storage of ice cream with the alternative of proceedings being instituted under the provisions of the Newport Corporation Act, 1906. riie conditions prevailing in the town were on the whole very satisfactory. In regard to cleanliness the worst offenders were keepers of Bakehouses and Hotel and Restaurant Kitchens. All nuisances dis- covered on premises where foods were prepared and sold were remedied on the service of informal notices. Private Slaughterhouses.—Ihere are only two of these premises li/censed within the Borough. Both are in a fairly good state of repair and are well kept. 183 notices were received during the year of intention to slaughter, and a total of 647 animals were slaughtered :— Cattle 23, Pigs 550, Sheep and Lambs 74. Public Slaughterhouse.—This is referred to in the Medical Officer of Health’s Report. The supervision of the animals slaughtered occupies an enormous amount of time, as an endeavour is made to thoroughly examine everything slaughtered there. 53,349ilbs. of beef and veal, 3,630^1bs. of mutto-n and lamb, 6,514]bs. of pork, were condemned as unfit for human consumption. The whole of this was voluntarily surrendered. Bakehouses.—The number on the register was 74 within the Borough ; Inspections, 433 during the year. The number of nuisances discovered in the course of inspection was 30, for which 22 notices were served; 72 re-visits were paid in order to get the notices complied with—26 of the nuisances were due to want of cleanliness. Nearly all of these premises are of modern construction and on the whole are kept in a g^d sanitary condition, but that is probablv because of the close supervision given to them. Cowsheds (12), Milkshops and Dairies (208).—The 220 premises Dn the register have received 1,612 inspections. 23 new milkshops were added to the register and 40 removed during the year. There are now a “Special Designation” milksellers in the ^ Borough—1 selling ‘^Certified,” 1 Grade “A,” 1 Grade “A” (Tuberculin Tested), and 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28866721_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
