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Meat Inspection
In the neighbourhood of the Smithfield Meat Market there are a
considerable number of wholesale butchers and offal shops bacon factories
wholesale bacon and provision warehouses poultry game and
rabbit shops and Public Cold Air Stores all of which are regularly
inspected by the meat inspector.
Several of the wholesale butchers shop trade in old cow and bull
carcases beef which is used for manufacturing purposes Due to the
nature of these carcases a rigid inspection was maintained to ensure
that diseased carcases were not passed on to the public.
A systematic examination of imported frozen carcases of mutton
and lamb was made for Caseous Lymphadenitis in the Public Cold Air
Stores.
Consignments of Continental and Scandinavian offals and tinned
hams continued to be imported into the Borough and condemnations of
these took place on several occasions.
The collection of unsound meat and other foodstuffs continues to
be collected satisfactorily by the contractors Messrs Henson and
Burbidge, Matusa Works Beckton, who render down the foodstuffs for
technical purposes only.
During the year 119 certificates were issued for the export of
meat bacon and meat essence, Several of these certificates were
issued for the export of boneless and bone- in quarters of cow beef to
Prance and Italy.
A total of 1,597 visits were made to the retail butchers shops
and stalls In the borough
During the course of the year the meat inspector examined 2 794
cartons and 2 242 bags of New Zealand Beef Livers, each containing 6 to
8 livers for a parasitic hydatls cyst - the Echinococcus Granulosus.