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Ealing 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Meat and Other Foods.—There were no infringements of the
Public Health (Meat) Regulations. No meat is sold from stalls in
the Borough.
There are three private slaughterhouses but no animals were
slaughtered in them during the year.
There is no public slaughterhouse in the Borough.
The Meat Depot which was established in a central position at
the beginning of the war still serves a large area in Middlesex,
embracing Ealing. The Sanitary Inspectors have had to inspect a
large quantity of meat there daily.
The following table indicates the amount of the various foodstuffs which have been condemned by the Inspectors as unfit for food in the course of their inspections at the meat depot and at the various food premises in the Borough :—
| lbs. | |
|---|---|
| Beef | 1,971½ |
| Pork | 42 |
| Mutton | 502½ |
| Veal | 40 |
| Offal | 287½ |
| Bacon | 259¼ |
| Fish | 2,929 |
| Sausages | 112¼ |
| Tinned Meat | 10,896½ |
| Fruit and Vegetables | 15,146¾ |
| Confectionery | 13,915 |
| Flour and Pudding Mixture | 2,799 |
| Cocoa | 5,094 |
| Cereals | 1,600½ |
| Assorted Food | 2,042¾ |
| 57,638¼ lbs. | |
| Milk (tins) | 2,929 |
| Fish (tins) | 2,787 |
| Assorted Articles | 1,441 |
| Eggs | 2,634 |
| Assorted tins, jars and packets | 10,906 |
| Tinned Fruit and Vegetables | 6,022 |