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1911] 802
INSPECTOR WILKINSON'S REPORT.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Upper Street, N.
March 26th, 1912.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Hear Sis,
I have pleasure in submitting the following report of my work for the year ending
December 30th, 1911.
Slaughterhouses.—There were during the greater part of the year 32 slaughterhouses
on the register, but this number was further reduced by two at the annual licencing session
of the London County Council owing to an objection by their inspector to the renewal of the
licence of premises situate at 53, Southgate Road, being successful, and to the fact that no
application was made for the renewal of the licence to the premises situate at 34, Palls Pond
Road, which were then unoccupied.
A total of 1,759 visits have been paid to the slaughterhouses during the year, and
no complaint as to the conduct thereof can be made against them.
The number of animals slaughtered was as follows :—
Oxen Calves Sheep and Lambs Goats Total
1,448 73 38,001 8 39,530
as compared with—
Oxen Calves Sheep and Lambs Goats Total
1,691 91 30,176 Nil 37,958
in the preceding year.
The quality and soundness of the animals generally was very good.
Only three cases of tuberculosis in bovine animals were detected, which is in itself
proof of the generally excellent quality of the animals purchased by those traders holding
slaughterhouse licences within the Borough. Two, however, of these were found to be so far
affected as to render necessary in the interests of public health the rejection of the entire
carcase and all organs. One of the animals was a heifer,, to which the owner called the
attention of this department, during my absence through illness, which District Inspector
Bridel inspected and found the disease to be generalised so that the carcase and all the organs
were surrendered for destruction. I may here add that since this occasion only sheep have
been slaughtered on these premises, the licencee having been supplied with beef from the
slaugh:erhouses at the Metropolitan Cattle Market; although prior to that he usually