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Meat—coutinued.
Sheep's. Lungs, 4 8 pairs.
pigs ,, 4
Pigs' Mesenteries, 18.
Pork, 9 lbs.
,, Canned German, 218 lbs.
Steak, filleted, 1 tray.
Meat Pies, 13.
Veal and Ham Pie, ½.
Sweetbreads (lamb), 10 lbs.
Sausages, canned, 12 cwts. 40 lbs. and
18 tins.
Fruit.
Apples, 25 boxes.
Pears, (3 boxes) 294 lbs.
Raspberries (50 barrels), 1¾ tons.
Fruit Salad, canned, 2 tins.
Goods, bottled and canned, 6 cases and
2,800.
Dried Goods, 4¼ cwts.
Vegetables.
Asparagus, 6 bundles.
Beetroots, 230 bags.
Cucumbers, 12 tins.
Spinach, 1 box.
Butter, 1 lb.
Bacon, 217¾ lbs.
Ham, 14 lbs.
Chickens, 7.
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926.
Under Section 2 certain imported goods may not be exposed for sale unless they bear
an indication of origin. Orders in Council have been made under this Act in regard to honey,
fresh apples, currants, sultanas, raisins, eggs in shell, dried eggs, oat products, raw tomatoes,
frozen and chilled salmon and trout, butter, bacon, ham, dead poultry, maize starch, and all
imported meats and offals. Such of the requirements of these Orders as are enforceable by
the Borough Council were observed by the Food Inspectors in the ordinary course of their
duties.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Acts, 1928 and 1931.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has made Orders under this Act prescribing
grade designations of certain agricultural produce of England and Wales to indicate the
quality of the articles. Goods marked mast conform to the standards laid down by the
regulations.
The Food Inspectors supervise in the ordinary course of their duties such of the
requirements of these Regulations as are enforceable by the Borough Council.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
This Council having passed a resolution as provided in the Slaughter of Animals Act,
1933, extending the provisions of the Act relating to humane slaughter so as to include sheep,
ewes, wethers, rams and lambs, the requirements of the Act as to humane killing apply to all
animals killed in slaughter-houses in the Borough.
These provisions apply also to Knackers' Yards, but there are none of these in
St. Pancras.
There are three slaughter-houses in the Borough for which licences have been obtained,
viz.:—12, Pond Square (rear of 61, Highgate High Street), 166, Great College Street and
65, Osnaburgh Street. No slaughtering takes place at the latter premises.