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Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924/48.—These regulations
provide for the supervision of slaughterhouses, butchers' shops,
stalls, and the protection of meat against contamination by dirt and
flies, etc., in transport and handling.
Butchers' shops and stalls are under the constant supervision
of the Inspectors and proceedings are only instituted after disregard
of the Officer's warning. In no case was it found necessary to caution
Vendors during the year.
To improve the standard of hygiene, structural and other defects
were remedied in 31 instances mainly as a result of informal action.
Slaughterhouses.—Two premises in the Borough originally
licensed as slaughterhouses have not been used as such since the
introduction of the Livestock (Restriction of Slaughtering) Order,
1940. In both instances the premises are no longer to be used as
slaughterhouses and the issue of the appropriate licences has therefore
been discontinued.
Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations 1937 and 1948
—The Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with a river frontage of
five miles, with more than 30 wharves and two of London's largest
and most modern cold stores receives a considerable percentage of
London's imported meat stored on behalf of the Ministry of Food. In
addition considerable quantities of fresh fruit, tinned foods and miscellaneous
provisions are dealt with. Visits to wharves and cold
stores are made by the Food Inspectors and imported food generally
is carefully supervised.
Imported Food Rejected.—The following unsound or
diseased imported foods were surrendered, the meat being passed for
non-edible and refining purposes, and other unsound food, with the
exception of fruit pulp and juice, being processed for stock feeding.