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Beef. The frozen and chilled beef imported into the United Kingdom during
the year amounted to 5,382,700 quarters, an increase of 1,634,464 quarters, or
43 -6 per cent, over the preceding year's arrivals.
The total quantity seized by your officers and disposed of as unfit for human
consumption was 1,524 quarters and crops, 1,062 bags and a quantity of trimmings
and pieces, the total weight being 116 tons 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 2 lbs., against 52 tons 14 cwts.
2 qrs. 2 lbs. in the preceding year.
The largest quantity seized ex any vessel was 577 quarters, weighing
22 tons 7 cwts. 3 qrs. 9 lbs.
Mutton and Lamb.—The importations of frozen mutton and lamb from all sources
in 1920 amounted to 12,487,129 carcases, compared with 9,908,400 carcases in 1919,
an increase of 2,578,729 carcases, or 26 per cent.
The total quantity seized by your officers and disposed of as unfit for human
consumption was 2,578 carcases, 2,019 bags and pieces and a quantity of
trimmings, &c., the total weight being 122 tons 12 cwts. 0 qrs. 19 lbs., against 28 tons
4 cwts. 2 qrs. 15 lbs. in the preceding year.
The largest quantity seized ex any vessel was 1,461 carcases and a quantity of
trimmings, the total weight being 62 tons 0 cwts. 1 qr. 4 lbs.
Beef Affected with "Worm" (Onchocerca).—No beef affected with
"Worm" (Onchocerca) came under the notice of your officers during the year.
Actinomycosis in Ox-Tongues.—Most of the ox-tongues which arrived in the
Port of London were, at the request of the consignees, removed from the district of
the Port Sanitary Authority (without inspection) to cold stores within the City of
London and the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, to be examined there under the
supervision of the Medical Officers of Health of those districts.
About 70 separate consignments were put into cold store within the district of
the Port Sanitary Authority, where the tongues were thawed out and carefully
examined, and in the majority of the consignments not more than 2 per cent, of the
tongues showed evidence of disease.

The result of these examinations shows a slight retrogressive condition compared
with the previous year.
Pork.—During the year a careful examination was made of a percentage of all
consignments of pig carcases which arrived in the Port of London, and in the majority
of consignments the carcases examined showed less than 2 per cent, to be affected
with Tuberculosis.