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equipped with wash basins and carry supplies of hot water, soap,
towels and nailbrushes.
The Inspection of Meat and Other Foods.
There is only one licensed slaughterhouse in the district
and the table on page 37 shows that this was little used. Practically
the whole of the district's meat supplies are now obtained
from Smithfield market.
The inspection of meat in slaughter houses, which is carried
out to the standards laid down in Memo. 3/Foods, resulted in
the condemnation of 16 pounds of offal, whilst in retail shops,
884¾ pounds of raw meat and 2,720 pounds of tinned meat were
condemned.

Condemned foods are disposed of, whenever possible, to a
manufacturer of animal feeding stuffs and fertilisers. Small
quantities of condemned foods are buried on the Council's refuse
tip.
Regulations requiring the sterilizing and staining of meat
unfit for human consumption were made by the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food but were revoked, due, it is believed,
to pressure from the trade, before they came into force.
Thus, an opportunity to provide an essential safeguard against
the improper use of diseased meat was lost.
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