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The provisions of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924,
have been brought to the notice of the occupiers of these slaughterhouses.
Butchers' Shops.
The number of butchers' shops in the Borough at the beginning
of the year 1926 was 93. Four new shops were opened during the
year and two closed, making a total of 95 butchers' premises carrying
on business at the end of the year.
All butchers' shops in the Borough are systematically inspected,
and, in the main, they are well kept and provided with cold storage
facilities. During the year 1,302 inspections of these premises were
carried out by the Council's Food Inspector.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
These Regulations, made under the Public Health (Regulations
as to Food) Act, 1907, came into force on the 1st April, 1925. The
principal part of the Regulations deals with slaughter-houses and
slaughtering, and is designed to secure the inspection, by competent
officials, of all animals slaughtered. This part of the Regulations,
so far as „Battersea is concerned, is not of great importance,
as there are only two slaughter-houses now remaining in the Borough,
and in only one of these is slaughtering regularly carried on.
Proceedings were ordered for breaches of the Regulations in
4 cases, but were withdrawn by order of the Health Committee.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
The total number of samples taken under the Acts during 1926
was 984, of which 42 or 4·3 per cent, were certified by the Public
Analyst to be adulterated. In addition to the foregoing, 216
informal samples were procured, of which 8 or 3·7 per cent,
were reported by the Public Analyst as adulterated, not up to
standard, or as containing preservatives in varying amounts.