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[1910

Total 5 Cowhouses.
INSPECTOR WILKINSON'S REPORT.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Upper Street, N.
23rd March, 1911.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Dear Sir,
I have pleasure in submitting the following report on my duties in connection with
the inspection of slaughterhouses, butchers' and other shops and premises where foodstuffs
are sold, or deposited for sale, or are in course of preparation for sale; also the inspection
of cowhouses and offensive trade establishments during the year 1910.
Slaughterhouses.—The number of these on the register has been further reduced to
32, as compared with 34 at the end of the previous year, owing to the licence of one, situate
at Hazelville Road, being surrendered by the occupier, and one, situate at 410, Essex Road,
being refused a renewal at the annual licencing session of the London County Council on
account of its not having been used for the purposes of a slaughterhouse for a period of
nine months previously. The total number of visits paid to these during the year was 1,770.
The byelaws as to cleansing and general conduct have been satisfactorily observed and no
complaint has been received regarding them.
I am of opinion, however, that further powers are necessary in some cases to ensure
the cleanliness of slaughtermen's clothing and cloths used in washing and wiping of meat,
as well as the regulation, or, better still, the prohibition, of the blowing of meat, which
I have ofttimes previously mentioned. Whilst, in my opinion, blowing even by mechanical
means is entirely unnecessary and only meant to deceive the eye, there can be no question
that blowing by the aid of the human lungs is most repulsive, for even at the best if the
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