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70 FOOD SUPERVISION.
Food Supervision.
This subject falls under the following heads:—
(i.) Meat Supply—Slaughterhouses, Butchers' Shops ;
(ii.) Milk Supply—Cowsheds, Dairies, and Milkshops ;
(iii.) Food Purveying—Restaurants, Eating-houses, Fried Fish shops ;
(iv.) Ice-creams—Manufacture and Sale ;
(v.) Unsound Food; and
(vi.) Food Adulteration.
Meat Supply.—There are 8 slaughterhouses and 112 butchers' shops on the Register.
Slaughterhouses.—These are situated as under:—
Bishop's Mews, No. 1.
Southwick Mews, No. 15.
Edgware Road, No. 275.
„ Hero Place.
Portsdown Mews (in rear of No. 249 Maida Vale)
Harrow Road, No. 125.
Upper Brooks Mews, No. 6.
Chippenham Mews, No. 18.
The ground lease of buildings in Hero Place will expire very shortly, when it is proposed
to re-construct the slaughterhouse on more approved principles. No objections were raised
to any applications for renewals made at the last annual licensing, all the premises having
been maintained in good repair and well managed.
The Inspector visited the slaughterhouses 659 times during the year, and examined the
carcasses of 6,457 sheep, 204 bullocks, and 29 calves. He estimates that 1,740 lbs. of meat
and offal were destroyed on account of pathological conditions discovered at the time of
slaughter, which are summarised below:—
Sheep. Livers, 153—parasitic, 135, cirrhotic, 5, and containing abscesses, 13.
Lungs, 5— „ 2, pneumonia, 2, pleurisy, 1.
Plucks, 3— „ 2, pleuro-pneumonia, 1.
Caul fat, 1— „
Bullocks. Livers, 31— ,, 20, cavernous adenoma, 1, containing abscesses, 8,
fatty degeneration, 2.
Lungs, 3— „ 2, pleurisy, 1.
One entire carcase (heifer) was destroyed on account of extensive tuberculosis. This
was the worst specimen of the disease seen in the Borough, although the beast was well
nourished. The sinkin^-in of the flanks should, however, have aroused suspicions.
Butchers' Shops.—At 84 of these shops the trade is in beef and mutton, &c., and the
remainder (28) exclusively pork. The inspections numbered 646, at least half being on
the request of the proprietors of the shops to inspect pigs' carcasses on delivery from the
Central Meat Markets. The following surrenders were made—
21½ pigs carcasses, 7 heads, and 1 "hand-and-spring,"
all tubercular, and
1 pig's head (mange) and 30 lbs. (approximate) of organs (parasitic).
Milk Supply: Cowhouse.—The only cowhouse in the Borough is that at
Star Street, No. 39 licensed for 10 cows, 4 kept.
The cowhouse is frequently inspected by the officers of the County Council, and a
quarterly visit by the Inspector of the Department is deemed to be sufficient.