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Hackney 1907

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1907

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The following statement gives particulars as to the milk-places cowsheds, slaughter-houses, and offensive trades in the Borough.

Premises.Number of Places.Number of Inspections, 1907.Number of Notices, 1907.Number of Prosecutions.
On Register at end of 190G.Added in 1907.Removed in 1907.On Register at end of 1907.
Milk premises368363137398162
Cowsheds331322383
Slaughter-houses2525
Other offensive trade premises11

During the visits to the slaughter-houses Inspector Bobbitt
examined the carcases and organs of 236 oxen, 2,776 sheep and
lambs, 14 pigs, and 3 calves. He found the following parts
diseased and caused them to be destroyed as unfit for food.
1 ox head and tongue affected with Tuberculosis.
5 ox livers „ Abscess.
3 „ „ Distomatosis.
2 carcases and organs of Sheep (ill bled).
1 carcase „ „ affected with Pneumonia.
1 pluck „ „ „ Cysts.
3 livers „ „ „ Distomatosis.
Preserved Provisions Factories.—There are eight wholesale
provision factories in the Borough. The Inspector made 83 visits
to these during the year. On one of these inspections he
discovered some ox intestines used for the making of blackpudding
affected with the parasitic disease known as oesaphagostoma
columbianum. They were seized and condemned by the Magistrate
sitting at the North London Police Court. Subsequently the
Public Health Committee ordered legal proceedings to be instituted
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