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Bethnal Green 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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and 200, Brick Lane, 231, Cambridge Road, 19, 182,
199, 209, 211, Green Street, 282, 324a and 489,
Hackney Road and 43a, Old Ford Road.
Other Premises used for the Preparation or Sale
of Food.
There were 192 such premises on the register, the
majority being restaurant.kitchens or butchers. shops.
622 inspections were made during the year, and
arising out of such inspections 37 notices to remedy
faults or insanitary conditions were issued.
Slaughterhouses .
There are two licensed slaughterhouses in the
Borough, situated at: —
294, Bethnal Green Road.
354, Bethnal Green Road.
Visits were made to slaughterhouses by the Food
Inspector twice weekly during the year.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
During the year regular visits were made to the
slaughterhouses for the purpose of inspecting animals
before slaughter and their carcases and offal after
slaughter.
The number of animals killed was as follows : —
Sheep 247
Lambs 90
Pigs 18
Total 265
Still fewer animals were slaughtered than in the
previous year. The Meat Inspector attributes this to the
continued high prices of live cattle and the diminished
purchasing power of the people. Where a silverside was
formerly cut into two or three pieces it is now cut into
seven or eight pieces. The quality of the sheep, lambs