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Meat Inspection;
In the vicinity of the Smithfield Meat Market London, E C 1
there are a considerable number of wholesale butchers and offal
shops, bacon and provision warehouses, wholesale game, poultry
and rabbit shops, all of which are regularly inspected by the
meat inspector.
Several of these wholesale butcher shops deal in old cow.
bull and sow carcasses, which are used in the manufacturing trade
for sausages, pies etc. Several new premises have been opened
during the course of the year, and due to the nature of this
business a rigid inspection is maintained to ensure that diseased
carcasses are not passed on to the public.
A systematic examination of imported frozen carcasses of
mutton and lamb was made for Caseous Lymphadenitis in the Public
Cold Air Stores.
Consignments of Continental and Scandinavian offals and
tinned hams continue to be imported into the Borough and these
are regularly inspected for disease and unsoundness. The collect
ion of unsound meat and other foodstuffs continued to be collected
very satisfactorily by Messrs Henson and Burbidge Ltd., Matusa
Works, Beckton, who render down this condemned foodstuff for
technical purposes, such as tallow and fertilizers. During the
year 215 certificates were issued for the export of meat, bacon,
sausages, meat essence etc, A total of 1,048 visits were made to
the retail butchers shops and stalls in the Borough,
A further consignment of 373 bags of Uruguayan Beef Livers
were examined for hydatid cysts, - Echinococcus Granulosus and
648 Beef Livers were found to be parasitic and condemned approx
imately 15% of the consignment.
Bakehouses:
As a result of the 1958 quinquennial survey, 4 basement
bakehouses have now been closed and the remaining 7 have satisfied
the requirements of the Council and certificates of suitability
were granted at the beginning of the year.
In addition there are 9 other bakehouses in use in Finsbury
A total of 107 visits were paid during 1959.