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Ice Cream Vendors.
The ice cream manufacturers and vendors throughout the borough
have been visited and their premises inspected by the Sanitary Inspectors.
There are, at present, 165 known vendors and manufacturers
whose premises are reported to be suitable for the purpose.
MORTUARIES AND CORONERS' COURTS.
Details of Work carried out.
(a) Number of bodies received, 427—321 at High Street and 106 at
Wanless Road.
(b) Post-mortem examinations conducted, 203—142 at High Street
and 61 at Wanless Road.
(c) Number of inquests held, 413—306 at High Street and 107 at
Wanless Road.
PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS, 1924.
The following is a tabulation of the work carried out by the
Council's two Food Inspectors in connection with the Public Health
(Meat) Regulations, 1924, during 1926:—
(1) Number of visits* paid to slaughter houses, 725 ;
(2) Number of visits* paid to meat shops and meat stores, 821 ;
(3) Number of visits* paid to meat stalls, 507 ;
(4) Number of actual slaughterings at which one or other of the
Food Inspectors was present, 5,892, consisting of beasts
(378), sheep (3,128), lambs (1,106), pigs (1,154), hogs (17).
and calves (109);
(5) Carcases, or portions of carcases, condemned, 136.
Of the 5,890 actual slaughterings, at which one or other of the
Food Inspectors was present, and in connection with which 136 carcases
or portions of carcases were condemned, the diseases necessitating such
condemnation were as follows:—3 tuberculous livers (beasts), 3
tuberculous heads (beasts), 3 tuberculous tongues (beasts), 1 tuberculous
spleen (beast), 1 tuberculous heart (beast), 2 tuberculous lungs
(beasts), 32 fluke-infected livers (beasts), 1 cirrhotic liver (beast), 1
septic lungs (beast), 1 septic liver (beast), 5 septic lungs (sheep, 63
strongylus-infected lungs (sheep), 3 fluke-infected livers (sheep), 8
fluke infected whole plucks (sheep), 1 cirrhotic liver (sheep), 1 pleuritic
whole pluck (pig), 1 septic whole pluck (pig), 1 septic head (pig), 1
septic lungs (pig), 1 echinoccus infected liver (pig), 1 septic liver
(calves), 1 extensively bruised forequarter, and 1 extensively bruised
hindquarter (beasts). In addition, 700 calves' "breads" (weighing 3
cwt.) were condemned, on account of advanced states of decomposition.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
Action has been taken as required in conjunction with the
Borough Engineer's Department in connection with reported nuisances
from rat-infestation.