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Diphtheria Anti-Toxin.
Quantity provided to private practitioners Nil.
MEAT INSECTION.
Count of meat delivered at Smithfield Market:- 34,436 tons
Count of meat seized by Meat Inspectors at
Smithfield Market:- 24 tons.5 cwts.l qrs.2 lbs.
Count of meat seized by Meat Inspectors at Cold Stores.
Leadenhall Mkt. & City Shops:- 13 tons.3 cwts.0 qrs.6 lbs.
No. of Prosecutions instituted Nil.
No. of Demonstrations and Instructions in Meat Inspection:- Nil.
No.of Naval Officers receiving instruction in Feat Inspection:- Nil.
PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS, 1924.
The improvement in carriage of meat noted in past reports has
been maintained, although of course the quantities carried are very
Such less.
PREMISES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED AMD OFFERED FOR SALE.
All these premises are subject to regular inspection. Inspections
have been made and without exception all criticisms have received
immediate attention.
ITINERANT FOOD VENDORS.
Constant irspections of barrows and of itinerant food vendors
have been maintained and no difficulty has been experienced in
connection with this class of trade.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The food delivered at riverside wharves and at other premises in
the City has consisted of the customary varieties, and has been the
Subject of constant inspection. 117 tons 15 cwts. 1 qr. 21 lbs. were
condemned as unfit for human consumption. 117 tons 1 cwt. 1 qr. 17 lbs
of this Food was utilised for stock-feeding, fertilizing or manufactbring
purposes. The remainder, consisting of 14 cwts.O qrs .4 lbs. was
destroyed either by the Cleansing Department of the City Corporation,
sing useless for stock feeding purposes, or else on the sites on which
it as condemned, the individual quantities being so small as not to
warrant the use of petrol in transport.