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Canned and Other Foods—
Foods, Various (Canned) 3,422 „
Meats (Canned) 7,144 „
Cheese 20 „
Fish 161 „
Fish (Canned) 96 „
Fruit (Canned) 2,385 „
Fruit Juice (Canned) 6,542 „
Fruit Pulp (Canned) 3,232 „
Currants 168 „
Sultanas 252 „
Jam (Canned) 689 „
Carrots (Canned) 2,894 „
English Frozen Whole Egg (Canned) 896 „
Carrots (Bags) 1,120 „
New Potatoes (Bags) 224 „
Fruit Concentrate (Drums) 450 „
29,695 lbs.
31,044 lbs.
Compared with the previous year, the amount of meat rejected
fell by 15 lbs. during 1963, but the total of all food rejected rose
by 16,571 lbs.
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 supvision
of the Food Inspectors who made 127 visits of inspection
and arranged for the correction of insanitary defects at 5 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.
Slaughter houses.—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 used
as slaughterhouses and the issue of the appropriate licences has
therefore been discontinued.
From 1st October of the current year these Regulations were
replaced by the Meat Inspection Regulations. 1963.
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
various importers. In addition, considerable quantities of fresh
fruit, tinned foods and miscellaneous provisions are dealt with.