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FOOD SUPERVISION.
Food Supervision.
This subject will be considered under the following heads :—
(i.) Meat Supply—Slaughterhouses, Butchers' Shops ;
(ii.) Milk Supply—Cowsheds, Dairies, Milkshops ;
(iii.) Food Purveying—Restaurants, Eating-houses, Fried Fish shops, and " Ice-cream " purveyors
and makers ;
(iv.) Unsound Food ;
(v.) Food Adulteration.
Meat Supply : Slaughterhouses.—There are eight slaughterhouses in the Borough, one
less than in 1902, the slaughterhouse in Jonson Mews having been abandoned. The premises
licensed in October last are as below :—
Bishop's Mews, No. 1. Portsdown Mews (in rear of No. 249 Maida Vale).
Southwick Mews, No. 15, Harrow Road, No. 125.
Edgware Road, No. 275, Upper Brooks Mews, No. 6.
Hero Place, Chippenham Mews, No. 18.
These premises have been under the constant supervision of the Inspector (Mr. Grivell)>
who made in all 770 inspections to examine the animals on slaughter. He reports that he
examined the carcasses of 6,725 sheep, 232 bullocks, and 38 calves, all killed at the beforementioned
premises. The following organs, &c., were condemned and destroyed.
Livers, 178 affected with Spleen—" Angioma.''
Lungs, 25 parasites. Head—" Actinomycosis."
Plucks, 10
One sheep was found to have pleurisy, and one bullock to be tuberculous.
No legal proceedings were taken in connection with this work during the year.
Butchers' Shops.—The Inspector has on his list 86 butchers' and 28 pork butchers' shops.
He visited these premises 406 times to examine the meat, &c.*
Milk Supply: Cowhouses.—There are two licensed cowhouses in the Borough, viz.:—
Chichester Mews, Nos. 7 and 8 licensed for 8 cows, 4 kept.
Star Street, No. 39 „ 10 „ 4 kept.
The Inspector reports that he has visited these premises 8 times during the year.
Dairies and Milkshops — At the close of 1902, there were 173 milk vendors on the
Register. During the past year there were 4 new registrations, 10 changes of name, and 3
removals from the Register, which at the close of 1903 contained 174 effective entries.

The Inspector reports that he made 210 inspections of the above premises. A list of the
defects found thereat is given in Table 40.
* The subject of meat inspection will be dealt with under " Unsound Food."