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§ 4.—FOOD INSPECTORS' REPORTS.
The following arc the Reports of the Inspectors of Foo l Premises and
of Food:—
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
1 beg to report on my work in the Northern and Eastern Divisions of
the Borough for the year ended December 31st, 1900, as Inspector of Food and
Food places.
Markets.—I made 1,740 inspections of the various market places, including
stalls, and, when necessary, made applications to the Magistrates sitting at the
butchers', pork butchers', poulterers', fishmongers, greengrocers', shops and
Police Courts to condemn and order the destruction of certain unsound food.
The following articles of food were destroyed, being unfit for the food of
man:—
3 pigs.
2 sheep.
1 lamb.
17 lbs. of pieces (beef and mutton).
3 breasts of mutton.
6 cwt. of " offal."
2½ cwt. of skate.
2½ cwt. of cod.
1 cwt. of apples.
½ cwt. of pears.
2 barrels of grapes.
Food Makers.—I have made 301 visits to the premises where sausages, ice
<;ream, tripe, &c., .are made, and with few exceptions, found the premises
satisfactory and the food sound.
Licensed Slaughter-houses.—There are 8 private slaughter-houses in the
division and I made 238 inspections, during which I saw 720 sheep, 81
bullocks, 131 pigs, 28 lambs, and 3 calves, killed and dressed, and such carcases
and organs as on examination were found to be diseased I had removed, by the
written request of the owners, under sub-section 8 of Section 47 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
The following table shows the number of animals and organs found to be
diseased, nature of disease, &c.