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Each inspector takes samples under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act in his district. These purchases are nearly always
made by deputy.
Meat and Food Inspection.-The Borough Council have
appointed Mr. Hilling as a special meat inspector to inspect
systematically butchers' shops, food stuffs, shops for food preparation
and cold stores throughout the whole district.
In addition he pays special attention to the meat deliveries in
the wholesale market in Charterhouse Street, St. John Street, and
Cowcross Street, all adjacent to Smithfield Market.
Each district inspector holds a certificate of competency in meat
inspection.
The total weight of diseased or unsound meat and offal and
other foods confiscated in 1913, was over 123 tons.
All the unsound, diseased, and decomposed meat is removed
under agreement by Messrs. C. & H. Webb, fat melters, 155,
Bow Road, London, E. Messrs. Webb have their factory in
Bow Common Lane, and pay the Borough Council one penny per
market stone of eight pounds for all the diseased and unsound
butcher's meat removed by their men.
It is to be noted that Messrs. Webb only pay for the diseased
and unsound details comprised in the term "butchers' meat,"
It includes the following items : Sides, quarters and pieces of
beef, carcases and pieces of mutton, lamb, veal, and pork, and
pieces of bacon. It does not include diseased or decomposed offal
(e.g., heads, tongues, plucks, livers, tripes, mesenteries, intestines,
tails), sweetbreads, chitterlings, turkeys, pheasants,
partridges, hares, ducks, rabbits or fish. Messrs Webb are
allowed to have the diseased and unsound butcher's meat on the
understanding that they also remove the very offensive offals and
decomposed game and fish, which are of very little service for
fat melting. The consignments are weighed under the supervision
of the meat inspector, and before removal are thoroughly
dowsed with crude disinfectant.