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22.
Unsound Food:
The work of meat inspection in the area of the Smithfield
Meat Market continues, since the secondment of Mr. Penman to the Ministry
of Food, to be carried out by Mr. R.S. Barber the Assistant Meat Inspector.
Regular inspections of the meat and offal consigned to the various wholesale
butchers and offal shops were carried out and were also made of the
various bacon factories, wholesale bacon and provision warehouses and
Public Cold Air Stores. Visits and inspections of the retail butchers
shops in the Borough were also carried out.
In February 1945, the London Wholesale Meat Supply
Association Ltd., an executive department of the Ministry of Food,
opened a boning depot at 24, St. John Street, to supply London and the
suburbs with meat for manufacturing purposes. Due to the particular
class of carcases consigned to this depot, a detailed examination of all
meat arriving here is required and is constantly under the supervision
of the meat inspector.

The number of carcases of Mutton and Lamb found to be affected with
Caseous Lymphadentis was 49.
Representations were made by the Council to the Ministry of
Health and Ministry of Food regarding the frequency of Caseous Lymphadenitis
in imported mutton. Officials of both Ministries attended Meat Stores in
the Borough to note Mr. Barber's findings.
Slaughterhouses:
The slaughterhouse owned by Mr. J.A. Mobbs, 14 Penton Street
was closed down on the outbreak of the war. No animals were slaughtered
there during 1945.
Disposal of Condemned Meat:
The disposal of condemned foodstuffs is now performed by
the Sheppey Glue and Chemical Works, Ltd., 34 Ceylon Street, S.W.8.