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operated instrument. This requirement is only to be applied to
sheep by resolution of the local authority; and they are given power
to exclude goats from the operation of the requirement.
Local authorities are also given power to license slaughtermen'
their licences to be available throughout England and Wales.
The right of inspection of slaughterhouses and knackers' yards
is given to the Medical Officers of Health and Sanitary Inspectors.
The Council, on 22nd November, resolved that the section
with regard to humane slaughtering should apply from 1st January,
1934, to sheep, ewes, wethers, rams and lambs, the Health Committee
having previously, by request, received a deputation from
the London Retail Meat Traders' Association upon the subject.
The Council also decided not to exclude goats and kids from the
Act.
During the year four applications for licences by slaughtermen
employed in the Borough were granted.
Cow-houses.
The duty of licensing dairymen to use premises as a cow-house
or place for keeping cows was one of the functions of the London
County Council which were transferred to the Metropolitan Borough
Councils by the Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933.
There are, however, now no cow-houses in the Borough.
Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards.
As from 1st April, 1933, the duty of licensing knackers and
slaughterers of cattle and horses, and the premises used by them,
was transferred to the Metropolitan Borough Councils by the
Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933, referred to above.
The Council adopted rules regulating the procedure to be
adopted in dealing with applications for such licences, and the
licences relating to the two existing slaughterhouses in the Borough,
which expired in October, 1933, were extended to 30th June, 1934.
These two slaughterhouses have for many years been kept
under systematic inspection by the sanitary inspectorial staff, and
during the year 1933, 136 inspections were made by the Council's
inspector. The carcases of 168 animals (calves 1, sheep 78, and
pigs 89) were examined after slaughter.