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Many licensed victuallers have instituted a catering service
during the last few years, some providing prepared food to be
consumed at the bar counter and others supplying a cooked lunch
in a separate dining room. Two improvements were carried out
at public houses as a result of informal action and, in one instance,
substantial structural alterations were being made to premises
for the establishment of a tavern.
Food Rejected.—The following table is a summary of unsound
food voluntarily surrendered during the year under the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 180(8) most of
which was processed and used for animal feeding:—

Compared with the previous year, the amount of meat rejected
fell by 92 lbs. during 1964, and the total of all food by 4,166 lbs.
The Meat Inspection Regulations, 1963.—These Regulations,
operative from 1st October, 1963, were made under Sections
13 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, and they replace,
with amendments, the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924/52.
The main provisions are that, except where the regulations
permit, carcases of animals slaughtered for sale for human consumption
must not be removed from the place of slaughter until
they have been inspected and, if passed as fit for human