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Compared with the previous year, the amount of meat rejected
fell by 77,496¼ lbs. during 1956, but the total of all food rejected
rose by 30,095¼ lbs. This was mainly the result of the condemnation
of approximately 45 tons of potatoes originally introduced by
the government from the continent at a time when a shortage of
potatoes in this country appeared imminent. The stock in store
was never drawn upon, it subsequently deteriorated and was finally
surrendered.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924/52.—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.—These are under the constant
supervision of the Food Inspectors who made 119 visits of inspection
and arranged for the correction of insanitary defects at 15 premises.
As with other premises, legal proceedings are instituted only
after disregard of the Officer's warning and in no instance was it
necessary to resort to this procedure.
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.