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DAIRIESCOWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
The number of persons registered to sell milk is twenty-seven, viz;10
Dairies and Cowsheds.
17 Milkshops and Purveyors of Milk.
Thirty-one inspections were made, and particular attention paid to the
hygienic essentials necessary for a pure milk production and distribution.
Eleven Licences were granted to sell milk under the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1936, viz:-

SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT. 1933.
There are twenty persons licensed by the Council as fit persons to slaughter
animals in the district as compared with nineteen in the previous year.
No complaint was received concerning the conduct of any of these men.
Slaughter houses are also visited by an Inspector of the R.S.P.C.A., who holds
an honorary appointment under the Council, thus giving him power to enter slaughter
houses in order to see that animals are humanely slaughtered.
MEAT AND FOOD INSPECTION.
In the early part of the year the four slaughter houses in the district were
closed for the duration of the war and centralised slaughtering centres set up by
the Ministry of Food as part of the scheme for meat rationing.
Up to the time the slaughter houses were closed, 45 cattle, 77 calves, 79 sheep
and lambs, and 52 pigs were inspected. The carcase of one pig was found to be
slightly affected with Tuberculosis, The affected parts were destroyed. In
addition 6 lbs. of Pork and 60 lbs. of frozen rabbits were destroyed as being unfit
for human consumption.
Particulars of foodstuffs condemned as unfit for food due to enemy action will
be the subject of report at a later date.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. 1938.
The above Act is enforced by the County Authority in this district.
The following table shows the number and nature of the samples taken in the
Urban District of Barnet, with the results of the analyses.