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instituted against the tnan on his recdvery and he was fined £3
and costs.
TheChief Sanitary Inspector called my attention tothe
condition of a calf which had been slaughtered at a
licensed slaughterhouse in Usk Road together with four others.
The latter were fit for food, but the flesh of the calf in question
was inflamed and flabby and the animal had evidently been
affected by wasting inflammatory disease and was consequently
unfit for human food. The carcase was seized by the Chief
Inspector and conveyed to the Police Court, the magistrate
condemned the meat and ordered it to be destroyed. The
name and address of the owner of the calf were given by the
slaughterhouse keeper and he was summoned for sending a
diseased animal to a licensed slaughterhouse, the law directing
that animals unfit for human consumption shall be sent to a
knackers. He was convicted and fined £1 and 23s. costs, the
magistrate not being convinced that he had knowledge of the
condition of the calf in question, but finding that it was not
necessary to prove such knowledge as the offence is complete
without it.
On Sunday, June 8th, the Chief Inspector seized in the
Battersea Park Road from a butcher's premises meat exposed
for sale and another quantity deposited for sale. The meat in
question was condemned by the magistrate and destroyed and
the butcher subsequently fined £10 for exposing for sale and £5
for depositing for sale, with 5/- costs.
On the same day the Chief Inspector seized under similar
circumstances meat at a shop in Falcon Road, which was subsequently
condemned and destroyed. The butcher here was
also fined £10, £5, and 5/- costs.
The Chief Inspector found that gut scraping was
carried on in unlicensed premises at I, Weston
Diseased
Meat.
Gut
Scraping.