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No contravention of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations
or the By-laws in regard to slaughterhouses was reported during
the year.
There are no knackers' yards in the Borough.
Butchers' Shops.
The number of butchers' shops in the Borough at the beginning
of the year 1933 was 101. Five new premises were opened during
the year making 106 butchers' premises where business was carried
on at the end of the year. There are in addition a number of
premises where the sale of cooked meats is carried on, in addition
to grocers' and provision merchants' premises, where cooked meats
are among the articles sold.
All butchers' shops in the Borough are systematically inspected,
and for the most part they are well kept and provided with cold
storage facilities. During the year 1,550 inspections of these
premises were carried out by the Council's Food Inspector.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
It was not found necessary during 1933 to institute legal
proceedings for any contravention of the Public Health (Meat)
Regulations, 1924, but a cautionary letter was, by order of the
Committee, addressed to a street vendor whose stall failed to comply
with the requirements of the Regulations.
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.
The analysis of samples of food and drugs procured under the
provisions of the above-mentioned Act, or informally (i.e., without
following in detail the procedure prescribed by the Act in the case
of formal samples) is carried out by the Public Analyst for the
Borough, at the laboratory at 325 Kennington Road, S.E.
The bacteriological examination of samples (mainly milk) is
carried out by the Clinical Research Association, Ltd., at Watergate
House, Strand, W.C.
The total number of food samples taken under the Act during
1933 was 785, of which 8 or 1 per cent, were certified by the
Public Analyst to be adulterated. In addition to the foregoing,
415 informal samples were procured, of which 2 or 0-5 per cent,
were reported by the Public Analyst as containing preservatives in
contravention of the provisions of the Public Health (Preservatives,
&c., in Food) Regulations.
The percentage of samples reported by the Public Analyst to
be adulterated during the quinquennia 1921—1925 and 1926—1930,
and in each year from 1926 onwards, is given in the following
table.