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1903]
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INSPECTION OF FOOD.
Inspections of food were made systematically and at short intervals by
your inspectors during the year, the chief work falling on the Inspector of
Meat (Mr. H. Wilkinson), whose duty it is not only to examine all foods, but
also all places, bakehouses excepted, where food is prepared, the district
inspectors only making inspections on Saturday evenings in their several
districts, on which occasions they pay special attention to fruit, vegetables,
fish, meat, etc., sold by costers and other persons in the streets.
Your Inspector of Meat performed a very great deal of useful work quietly
and without friction, and generally carried out his duties in a satisfactory
manner.
One butcher, who, not residing in the borough, formerly killed a great
many cattle, especially cows, at a slaughter-house in Roman Road, removed his
slaughtering elsewhere, as the supervision was too strict: or in other words
animals or parts of animals that were diseased were not allowed to be sold,
but were destroyed. In no case did this butcher appeal against your inspector's
decision, a fact which shows that his decisions had not been wrong.
Out of the 40,895 animals slaughtered 267, or 0.6 per cent., were found
to be diseased, of which number, 59 or 22.1 per cent., were suffering from
tuberculosis.