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Suggested Appointment of Meat Inspector.
The Public Health and Housing Committee considered the reference
to them to advise the Council as to the desirability of the appointment
of a Meat Inspector for the Borough. At present, inspections of meat
in the market streets are made on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings
by the staff of Sanitary Inspectors, and the seizure of meat unfit for
human consumption exposed for sale in the Borough is included in their
duties. It appeared to the Committee that the transference of this
duty from the eight present Inspectors, acting within their respective
districts, to one man specially appointed for the purpose and acting for
the whole borough, would not secure more effective prevention of the
sale of bad meat than at present. The Committee recommended the
Council that the reference of the matter to them be discharged.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
Letter from the Local Government Board.
A letter was received in July from the Local Government Board
stating that they had been in communication with the Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries with regard to recent outbreaks of Foot and Mouth
Disease in this country. The disease had in some cases been discovered
among cattle slaughtered at abattoirs, and in certain parts of carcases
exposed for sale. In view of the serious nature of the disease and its
liability to spread, the Local Government Board considered it very
desirable that specially strict supervision should be exercised by local
authorities and their officers over the meat supply with a view to the
detection of meat or offal showing signs of the disease.
The parts which required specially careful examination were the
heads, tongues and feet, and the letter stated that whenever lesions or
signs suspicious of Foot and Mouth Disease are discovered the officer
should communicate at once with the Inspector appointed under the
Diseases of Animals Acts, and retain for inspection the suspected parts
in order that any further action which may be considered necessary to
trace the disease to its source may be taken.