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Compared with the previous year, the amount of meat rejected
rose by 249½ lbs. during 1959, and the total of all food rejected
increased by 22,236 lbs.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924/52—These regulations
provide for the supervision of slaughterhouses, butcher's
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 95 visits of inspection
and arranged for the correction of insanitary defects at 10 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.
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