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any implements or apparatus used for loading or
unloading." If the vehicle is open at the top the
meat must be adequately protected by means of a clean
cloth or other suitable material and no live animal
may be conveyed in the vehicle at the same time as
meat. A person engaged in the handling and transport
of meat must not permit any part of the meat to
come into contact with the ground and shall take such
other precautions as are reasonably necessary to prevent
the exposure of the meat to contamination. Sub-section
3 of this section requires every person who employs a
person to carry meat in or about a market or other
place in which meat is sold by wholesale, etc., to cause
such person to wear a clean and washable headcovering
and overall.
It will be seen that these Regulations show a considerable
advance on our present-day methods of
slaughtering, selling and handling meat.
There are many matters of detail which will require
to be adequately considered by the Public Health
Committee before the Regulations come into force on
1st April, 1925 but it is hoped that some uniform
action may be taken for the whole of London.
Milk.—The number of adulterated samples of milk
has fallen from 4.5 per cent. in 1923 to 1.6 per cent.
in 1924. This is the lowest percentage of adulteration
which has ever been recorded in the Borough and is
most satisfactory. Two factors have combined to
bring about this result. Firstly, the many years of
constant watchfulness which Inspector Jones has
devoted to the inspection of milk sellers and to the
sampling of their milk, and secondly, the fact that a
large number of retailers in this Borough obtain their
milk from the United Dairies Milk Combine. This
Combine devotes particular attention to the adulteration
of their milk and regularly takes samples from the
retailers who deal with them. In this way an additional
control is maintained over the small milkseller.