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Orders have been issued relating to similar joint action on the part of the
Port Sanitary Authority with the following Metropolitan Borough Councils,
viz. : Stepney, Berinondsey, and Poplar.
The assistance of the staff of Meat Inspectors being indispensable for
carrying out the additional obligations imposed upon the Corporation by these
Orders, the Chief Inspector of Slaughterhouses and Meat, and six of the
Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat were, on the 4th February of this year,
subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, appointed Assistant
Officers under Article XV of the Foreign Meat Regulations and Article XI
of the Unsound Food Regulations, such appointments being duly confirmed
by the Local Government Board on the 3rd March, 1909.
It being evident that Steamship and Railway Companies engaged in the
transport of Foreign Imported Meat were greatly interested in these Regulations,
your Medical Officer, with a view to facilitate their working, convened
a conference at the Guildhall on the 22nd December last, which was attended
by representatives of the following Steamship and Railway Companies:—
The General Steam Navigation Co.
The John Cockerill Line.
W. H. Muller and Co. (the Batavier Line).
Phillips and Graves (representing the Holland Steamship Co.*).
The Great Eastern Railway Co.
South Eastern and Chatham Railway Co. (representing the Zeeland
Shipping Co.).
Of the above companies five, viz., the General Steam Navigation Co.,
the Batavier, the Holland Steamship Co., the Great Eastern Railway Co., and
the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Co. (for the Zeeland Shipping Co.),
convey practically the whole of the meat exported to London from Holland.
The John Cockerill Line carry almost solely from Belgium.
PIGS.
With the exception of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Co., on
behalf of the Zeeland Shipping Co., all the shippers at present engaged in the
Dutch trade agreed to your Medical Officer's suggestion that the best and
simplest method of complying with the Regulations, so far as pigs from
Holland were concerned, would be
(1) For all carriers to refuse absolutely to ship on board their boats
the carcasses of pigs that did not bear the Netherlands Government label
indicating that such carcasses had been subjected to official inspection
and found vyholesome.
* This Company are now represented by the British Amsterdam Maritime Agency.