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has been surrendered for destruction during the year. It is to be
hoped that in the near future all obviously unsound food will be
thus surrendered.
The City Corporation has provided, in their Islington Market,
a new slaughter-house for the use of butchers; and Dr. Collingridge,
the Medical Officer of Health for the City, recommends that
opportunity should be taken for the marking of meat which has been
therein inspected. It is much to be desired that this opportunity
should be given and that butchers should avail tnemselves of it. At
the present time the purchaser of meat in London has no means of
knowing whether it has been subjected to inspection, and the need for
this inspection is amply testified to by the records of the amount of
diseased and unwholesome meat seized or surrendered within the
Metropolis. Adequate inspection can never be provided in the
existing private slaughter-houses, and this is the great argument in
favour of the provision of municipal abattoirs.
A Committee of the Metropolitan Branch of the Society of
Medical Officer of Health reported during the year upon the conditions
which would justify a local authority in refusing to register
premises for the sale or storage1 of milk, or in removing such premises
from the register.
Generally, the Committee were of opinion that no premises
should be registered for the sale or storage of milk unless the
following structural conditions are complied with:—
The lighting and ventilation should be sufficient.
No room which is capable of use as a sleeping room should
communicate directly with the room or shop in which the milk is
sold or stored.
The premises should be so constructed that every part of the
interior is capable of being maintained in a satisfactory state of
cleanliness.