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City of London 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Imported Food Regulations, 1968.
Imported meat in containers notified as unexamined at the Port of Entry for the purpose of
these Regulations was examined on arrival at Smithfield.
The supply of information by the Smithfield FreightOffice of British Rail is greatly appreciated.
It is particularly valuable in tracing containers which do not arrive in Smithfield and where the
notifications therefore have to be passed on.
Communications from Port Health Authorities, particularly at weekends have been helped by
the installation of a recording machine.
Official notifications concerning 4,059 containers from the Republic of Eire were received
during the year.
Sampl ing
Samples sent for bacteriological examination 30
Samples sent for histological examination 1
Samples collected for Government Chemist I 35
(Pesticide Research)
Educational
Mounted specimens loaned to Local Authority
Health Exhibitions 50
Morbid specimens were provided for 5 Public Health Examinations in London.
Acknowledgement is made of the co-operation of the Department of Pathology, Royal Veterinary
College, with whom a mutually beneficial arrangement provides them with pathological
specimens of poultry and the Meat Inspectors with pathological reports when requested. Ten such
reports were received during the year.
Exports
Number of exportation certificates issued 5
TABLE SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF MEAT, POULTRY AND OTHER FOODS SURRENDERED TO OR SEIZED BY MEAT INSPECTORS IN THE CITY OF LONDON, 1970
| Smithfield Market | Leadenhall Market and City Shops | Cold Stores | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | ||
| Meat (Diseased) | 28 | 12 | l | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 28 | 12 | 3 | 26 | |||||
| Meat (Unsound) | 179 | 19 | 0 | II | 1 | 1 1 | 0 | 1 3 | 14 | 0 | 24 | 182 | 4 | 1 | 20 | ||
| Offal | 48 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Poultry & Feathered Game | 49 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 7 | 2 | 17 | ||
| Rabbits & Hares | 1 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 27 | |||||||
| Tinned Meat | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 21 | ||||||
| Other Tinned Goods | 3 | 13 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 27 | ||||||
| Frozen Fish | 15 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1970 | 317 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 324 | 17 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1969 | 374 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 377 | 18 | 1 | 0 | ||