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105
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
During the year 1929 regular visits were made to
the slaughterhouses for the purpose of inspecting animals
before slaughter and their carcases and offal after
slaughter. During the year there has been a falling
off over previous years of the number of animals
slaughtered. Owing to the continued high prices that
bullocks fetch alive it was not policy to buy for slaughter
locally. Pigs also during the year fetched a far
better price alive than dead, hence a falling off in the
number slaughtered here. The animals which were
slaughtered in the borough were of good quality and
very free from disease as shown by the carcases and
offal seized during the year. The two slaughterhouses
in the borough are kept in a very satisfactory condition
and the slaughtering is carried out in as painless a
manner as possible.

The following carcases or offal were condemned
and destroyed for reasons shown:—
Sheeps' Lungs ... 1 Abscess,
do. Livers ... 2 Distomatosis.
do. do. ... 1 Cysts.
Lambs' Lungs ... 1 Cysts.
Pigs' Carcase ... 1 Tubercular,
do. Pluck ... 4 Tubercular,
do. Heads ... 4 Tubercular.
Legal proceedings were found necessary in the
case of a meat trader who failed to take proper steps
to protect his meat from contamination, and a penalty
of £4 4s. Od. was obtained by thie Council.