Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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TABLE II.
BOVINES. | PORCINES. | ||
---|---|---|---|
Entire carcases and Viscera | 14 | Entire Carcases and Viscera | 18 |
Heads | 168 | Forequarters | 3 |
Tongues | 164 | Heads and Collars | 140 |
Forequarters | 4 | Hands and Springs | 2 |
Bottom Pieces | 2 | Legs | 3 |
Shins | 2 | Hearts | 19 |
Clods | 2 | Lungs | 256 |
Stickings | 2 | Stomachs | 16 |
Briskets | 5 | Intestines | 9 |
Flanks | 2 | Mesenteries | 289 |
Ribs | 3 | Livers | 93 |
Eegs | ½ | Spleens | 2 |
Hearts | 10 | Kidneys | 11 |
Lungs | 577 | ||
Diaphragms | 5 | ||
Stomachs | 28 | ||
Omenta | 20 | OVINES. | |
Intestines | 14 | ||
Mesenteries | 137 | Entire Carcases and Viscera | 31 |
Livers | 250 | ||
Pancreas | 37 | Loins | 4 |
Spleens | 19 | Lungs | 68 |
Kidneys | 18 | Livers | 380 |
Mammary Glands | 192 | Kidneys | 2 |
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
This Act received the Royal Assent on the 28th July, 1933,
and came into operation on the 1st January, 1934.
It requires the use of a mechanically operated instrument for
the slaughtering or stunning in a slaughter-house or knackers'yard
of:—
(a) any horse, mare, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly, stallion,
ass, donkey, mule, bull, cow, bullock, heifer, calf, steer,
ox, goat, or kid ; and
(b) any pig, boar, hog or sow where there is available a
supply of electrical energy or where such a supply could
reasonably have been made available ; and
(c) any sheep, ewe, wether, ram or lamb where a resolution
is passed by the local authority requiring such animals
to be slaughtered or stunned with a mechanically operated
instrument.
In connection with (c) above a resolution was passed by the
Council on the '28th November, 1933, requiring that, as from the
1st January, 1934, a mechanically operated instrument must be
used for slaughtering or stunning all sheep, ewes, wethers, rams
or lambs slaughtered in the slaughter-houses and knackers'—yard
within the borough.
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