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INSPECTION OF FOOD AND EXAMINATION
OF UNSOUND FOOD AT
WHARVES, Etc.
Appointment of Assistant Inspectors under Unsound Food
Regulations (First Series), Foreign Meat Regulations,
Poplar (First Series, Unsound Food Regulations) Order,
1908, Poplar (Foreign Meat Regulations) Order, 1908;
Examination of Food Stuffs at Wharves, etc.; Proposal
for enforcing cleanliness in cases of barrows and
Stalls on which Food is exposed or deposited for sale
in the Streets or other places; Conference to consider
the Meat Supply of the Kingdom and the present
Restrictions on the Importation of Live Cattle for
Slaughter.
Appointment of Assistant Inspectors under Food
Regulations.
In January the Council sanctioned the appointment, subject to
approval by the Local Government Board, of the Council's several
Sanitary Inspectors as Assistant Officers under the General Orders issued
in connection with the Foreign Meat and Unsound Food (First Series)
Regulations made by the Local Government Board under the Public
Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, to discharge under the
direction of the Medical Officer, all or any of the duties of the Medical
Officer under the Regulations.
The Local Government Board, however, requested that the matter
should be re-considered, with a view to the appointment under the
Regulations of such of the Inspectors as the Council considered necessary
to carry out the work, and who possess recognised certificates of qualification
for food inspection or are qualified by experience in this respect.
The Board further required that separate payment should be assigned
to the Inspectors selected, in respect of work to be done under the
Regulations.
There are four wharves at which imported meat or other foods are