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Food and Food Premises. 71
vided with a properly constructed dairy where milk can be bottled,
a milk store, and suitable means for obtaining steam or hot water
for the cleansing of the milk vessels.
2,176 inspections of dairies were made by the district Food
Inspectors during the year under review.
The quality of the milk supplied to the Borough throughout
the year has been good, and the average fat content shown by
the analysis of 936 samples was 3.57 per cent., compared with
3.59 per cent, in 1925.
Meat.
Seven private slaughter houses are now in use in the Borough,
and the Food Inspectors made 340 visits to these premises. They
were present on almost every occasion when slaughtering took
place, and inspected the carcases and organs after slaughter.
1,813 carcases were examined at these visits and the following
organs found to be diseased were condemned and destroyed:—
39 pairs of Lungs. 25 Livers.
8 Heads and Tongues. 14 Omentums.
2 Plucks. 1 Spleen.
In each of these cases the carcases were passed as sound and
wholesome after careful examination, and in no case was it found
necessary to condemn a carcase.
There are 244 butcher's shops in the Borough. 1,682 inspections
of these shops were made and the meat exposed for
sale has been examined regularly.
Under the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, every
butcher is required to do all that is reasonably necessary to guard
against the contamination of meat by flies, filth and dust. The
most efficient method of doing this is by providing a glass front
to the shop, and at the present time over 200 of the 244 butcher's
shops in the Borough have been fitted with glass fronts.