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In addition to the premises in the above table, there are the
following. food premises, referred to in other paragraphs of this
report—Slaughterhouses and Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
on the registers. Further, there are a large number of stalls and
barrows used for food purposes in different areas in the Borough
and forming" street markets. There are also barrows and other
vehicles which are used by hawkers, etc., for the selling of foodstuffs.
but it is difficult to estimate the actual number in use, as
this varies daily. All these barrows and vehicles, wherever found
are inspected by the Food Inspectors.
PUBLIC SLAUGHTERHOUSES, PITLAKE, AND MEAT
INSPECTION.
These Slaughterhouses, although the buildings were not
originally intended for such, comprise twelve slaughterhouses
with lairage attached. In addition, a gut cleaning firm utilises
one building on the premises. Of the twelve slaughterhouses,
nine with lairage attached were let on agreement to tenant
butchers, and the remainder were used for public slaughtering,
for which head rate tolls are charged.
The above slaughterhouses were taken over by the Ministry
of Food early in 1940, and were closed down at the end of
March, 1942, owing to centralisation of slaughtering.
PRIVATE SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND MEAT INSPECTION.
Control by the Ministry of Food and centralised slaughtering
came into force early in 1940, with the result that private