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40 sheep per annum; and as sheep are found to be much freer from
disease than bovine animals, the amount of unsound meat which
has had to be condemned by him has been very small indeed.
In Mr. Piggott's district only one of the two Slaughterhouses
is used for slaughtering purposes, namely, Mr. G. Brampton's, of
165, High Street. There the number of animals killed weekly
varies from 4 to 6 bullocks and 15 to 20 sheep. Fifteen pigs weie
killed last Christmas, but the killing is usually restricted to sheep
and oxen. A written Notice of the regular days of slaughtering
was sent to me at the end of 1925; and at busy seasons, such as
Christmas, when killing takes place on additional days, Notice has
been duly given.
During 1926 108 visits were paid to the 4 Slaughterhouses,
and the following diseased conditions, necessitating condemnation
of certain parts and organs, were discovered:
Ox. 128 lb. liver. —Flukes (Distoma Hepaticum).
16 ,, ,, —Fatty infiltration.
25 ,, „ —Abscesses.
56 ,, ,, —Flukes and Cirrhosis.
1 Ox lungs—Affected by Flukes.
2 lungs —Localised Tuberculosis (caseous).
1 head and tongue—Tuberculosis.
2 mesenteries—Localised Tuberculosis.
Sheep. Slight Cysticercus Tenuicollis in plucks and on omentums,
and occasional Strongylus Rufescens in lungs.
PART V.—SHOPS, STORES, Etc.
There are 39 Butcher's shops in the Borough. Many improvements
in these have been carried out at the instigation of myself
and the Sanitary Inspectors; 437 visits to shops where food coming
within the Regulations is sold or prepared for sale were made in 1926.
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Several up-to-date plate-glass fronts have been fitted, and
West's, of High Street, have promised to put in hand improvements
of their shops at Nos. 73 and 113, High Street. Although