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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
systematically by the Food Inspectors, who are specially
qualified for this work.
There are 247 butchers shops in the Borough. 2,401
inspections were made of these shops 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 present only 10 of
the 247 butchers' shops in the Borough are entirely without
either a fixed or moveable glass front.
Four butchers were prosecuted for failing to protect the
meat exposed for sale from contamination by dust and in
each case a fine was imposed.
Two butchers were prosecuted for failing to mark imported
meat exposed for sale. In one case a fine of £3 was imposed
and the other was cautioned and the summons dismissed.
A carrier of meat was summoned for failing to protect
the meat carried on the van which he was driving through
the street from the market to the retailer, and a fine of
£2 10s. was imposed.
Unsound Food.
At the request of the owners the following foodstuffs
were condemned and destroyed, and the usual certificates granted
viz. :—11 dozen escallops, 66 lbs. of cod fish, 184 lbs. of haddock,
196 lbs. of plaice, 6 lbs. of lemon soles, 88 lbs. of dried haddocks,
65J lbs. of roe, 2 boxes of cod, 4 boxes of haddock, 168 lbs. of
codling (monk, cod, haddock), 187 lbs. of skate, 42 lbs. of mackerel,
64 lbs. of chats, 168 lbs. of catfish, 146 boxes of pears,
½ bushel black currants, 2 cwt. of potatoes, 117 tins of condensed
milk, 4 cwt. of Westminster chocolate and 124 rabbits.
Certification of Meat Food Products.
All meat food products prepared for export from this
country to Canada, Australia and several other countries must