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SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
Fifty-two visits were paid and the carcases and organs of 333 pigs
were inspected during or shortly after slaughter, permission for slaughter
having been obtained from the Area Meat and Livestock Officer, and the
following surrendered :—
3 Sets of lungs.
7 Plucks.
4 Hearts.
1 Head.
2 Livers.
1 Pig Carcase (approx. weight 158 lbs.).
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.

One of the above retailers is licensed to bottle Tuberculin tested milk and
one firm is licensed to pasteurise and bottle milk on the premises ; one firm
is licensed to bottle pasteurised milk on the premises.
Supplementary licences are granted to retailers who live outside the
Borough but who sell milk in the Borough; the primary licence is granted by
the Authority in which they reside.
Unsound Food.
The following is a list of the food surrendered for examination and retained
as unfit for human consumption :—
2393 tins of milk.
1852 „ canned meat.
567 „ beans.
628 „ canned fish.
348 „ peas.
131 „ soup.
45 „ peaches.
10 „ rhubarb.
56 „ pears.
105 „ tomatoes.
28 , beetroot.
300 pots of jam and marmalade.
112 lbs. prunes.
857 lbs. of rabbits.
17 stone of Dabs.
35 stone haddock.
35 lbs. roes.
9 bags of whelks.
25 lbs. cutlets.
10 stone hake.
5 boxes kippers.
5 stone halibut.
27 lbs. Dried Haddock.
11 stone skate wings.
8 boxes fillets.
5 stone mackeral.
5 stone plaice.
10 megrims.
18 chickens.
15 cwts. rolled oats.
9J lbs. sausages
76 lbs. confectionery.
312 lbs. dried peas.
3 cwts butter beans.
10 lbs chocolate caramels.
25 lbs. dried peaches.
30 lbs. sausages.
142 lbs sugar.
143 lettuces.
62 lbs. dates.
138 6-lb. tins piping jelly.
68 tins Gaffe Ibiters
2-gallon tins of apples.
64 1-lb. packets of biscuits.
4 pots pickles
17 56-lbs. onions.
15J lbs. hindquarters ot beef
" 2 boneless hindquarters of beef
(329 lbs).
1 boneless forequarter of beef
(172 lbs.).
Together with various small consignments of miscellaneous foods.
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