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76 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. In
1872 there were 24 slaughterhouses.
Slaughterhouses.— These are situated as under:—
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 Brook Mews, No. 6.
„ Hero Place. 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 620 times during the year, and examined the
carcases of 5,860 sheep, 148 bullocks, and 15 calves. He estimates that about 800 lbs. (1,740
lbs. in 1904) of meat and offal were destroyed on account of pathological conditions discovered
at the time of slaughter, which are summarised below:—
Organ, &c. Cause of destruction.
Sheep. Livers, 62—parasites 50, cirrhosis 3, and abscesses 9.
Lungs, 14— „ 8, pneumonia 3, pleurisy 3.
Pluck, 1—pleuro-pneumonia.
Bullocks. Livers, 31—parasites 22, necrosis 1, containing abscesses 7.
fatty degeneration 1.
Lungs, 4— ,, 1, pleurisy, abscesses, and fibroma 1 each.
Spleen, 2— „ and angioma 1 each.
Skirt, 1—abscess.
Sixty pounds of beef were destroyed on account of extensive bruising.
Butchers' Shops.— At 83 of these shops the trade is in beef and mutton, &c., and the
remainder (29) exclusively pork. The inspections numbered 606, at least half being on
the request of the proprietors of the shops to inspect meat and pork on delivery from the
Central Meat Markets. The following surrenders were made—
5 pigs' carcases, 2 heads, side head and belly, 4 mesenteries, and 12 plucks (all tubercular),
And some beef, mutton and pork, weighing about 50 lbs. (wet and stinking).
Milk Supply: Cowhouse.— The only cowhouse in the Borough is that at
Star Street, No. 39 licensed for 10 cows, 5 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.
In 1856 there were 25 cowhouses (368 cows); and in 1872, 14.