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Of the 258 "Seizures" of Diseased Meat, exactly one-third
or 86, were tubercular carcases. Nearly all were those of cows, only
six being carcases of pork.
The average weight of the carcases of beef was only 43 stone 6 lbs.,
all of them were markedly tubercular.
The Clerk will give a list of the many prosecutions. I may say
that during the year I had to attend various Courts of Law on 116
separate occasions. This yon will readily understand occupied a great
deal of time.
The Board may be glad to know that Mr. Billing and I had the
honour of giving evidence before the Royal Commission on tuberculosis
that is now sitting.
BAKEHOUSES.
All the twenty-two bakehouses have been inspected and re-inspected.
All the sanitary defects have been attended to.
'"The Factory and Workshops Act, 1895," which came into force
on January 1st, 1896, enacts in Section 27 (3) the new provision that
"A place underground shall not be used as a bakehouse unless it is so
"used at the commencement of this Act ...."
COW-HOUSE AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The cow-house has been inspected several times, and the licence
again renewed after enquiry) by the County Council. It is a portion
of the ground floor of the tenements called Union Terrace; the remaining
parts of the ground floor are used as stables. The cow-house is in
the midst of an insanitary area that I reported details of to the Board
last year.
I must also call your attention to the fact that tuberculosis is very
frequent in cows kept in town cow-houses, and that the consumption of
milk thus contaminated is especially liable to produce tuberculosis in
children, men and animals.
The two slaughter-houses, one at the back of 29, Red Lion Street,
and the other in the Yorkshire Grey Yard, have been inspected by me
and the Meat Inspector, and the licences again renewed by the County
Council.
Dairies and milkshops arc under the supervision of the London
County Council.