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Islington 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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1899
During the year I inspected at your request the Horse Slaughtering Establishment
at 186, York Road, and presented to you a report thereon, with the result
that the firm was required to put the premises into a sanitary condition, to erect
additional plant, and, before their licence would be renewed, to give a guarantee to
the London County Council that they would execute all the works required by the
Public Health Department of Islington.
I append tables showing the number of my visits to shops, stalls, and preserved
meat factories, and the amount of meat destroyed. Also the number of
visits to the slaughterhouses, number of animals killed, number found affected
with disease, the extent to which they were affected, and how the carcases were
disposed of.
In concluding this report, I beg to thank you and your Chief Inspector for the
kind advice so willingly given. I also desire to thank your District Inspectors for
their kind assistance.
Your obedient servant,
T. DUNLOP YOUNG,
Meat Inspector.
Inspection of Shops, Etc.
| Total number of stalls, shops, and preserved meat factories | 237 |
| ,, ,, inspections to do. do. | 2,515 |
| Unsound food destroyed with consent of the owners—Beef in lbs. | 595 |
| „ ,, „ „ „ ,, „ „ Mutton ,, | 300 |
| „ ,, „ „ „ ,, „ „ Pork ,, | 20 |
| „ ,, „ „ „ ,, „ „ Veal ,, | 50 |
| „ ,, „ „ „ ,, „ „ Offal ,, | 362 |
| Unsound fowls destroyed „ ,, „ „ Fowls. | 24 |
| Unsound food destroyed by Magistrate's Order—Brawn in lbs. | 112 |
| Slaughterhouse Inspection. | |
| Total number of slaughterhouses | 47 |
| ,, ,, inspections | 1,986 |
| „ „ animals slaughtered for human food | 47,429 |
| These consisted of Oxen | 2,386 |
| 50 | |
| 402 | |
| 436 | |
| 903 | |
| 43,252 | |
| Total Quantity of Unsound Food Destroyed. | |
| lbs. | |
| Unsound food destroyed in shops, etc | 1,439 |
| „ „ „ in slaughterhouses | 8,014 |
| Total | 9,453 |
In addition to the above, a large quantity of pigs' and sheep's lungs and livers
affected with parasitical disease was destroyed.