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22
MEAT INSPECTION
Slaughterhouses.
There is one licensed slaughterhouse in the district but there is
no slaughtering of animals carried out.
No carcases were condemned for tuberculosis or any other disease.
Piggeries.
Fourteen piggeries in the district were visited on 162 occasions,
17 defects were found and remedied.
Bakehouses and Bakers' Shops.
There are 11 bakehouses in the district to which 124 visits of
inspection were made during the year—25 defects were remedied.
Fishmongers.
Fish frying is carried on at 14 premises ; 61 inspections were
made, and 8 defects were found and remedied.
Dairies and Cowsheds.
Special attention was given to the 16 dairies, 54 visits were made
and successful action taken to remedy 25 defects found.
Ice-Cream.
There are two premises registered for the manufacture of ice
cream, and 90 registered for the sale or storage of ice cream ; 19 of
these premises were registered during the year.
Fifty samples were taken for bacteriological examination and no
pathogenic organisms were found.
The Methylene Blue tests resulted as follows: —
Grade I 12 Grade III 8
Grade II 12 Grade IV 18
Grades beiow II can be said to be unsatisfactory.
Restaurants, Hotels, Canteens, Etc.
During the year 1949 a special survey was made of 31 ordinary
restaurants and caf£s at which main meals are served, the survey
recording 65 enquiry items in each case.
To record a summary of these 65 items in this annual report
would serve no useful purpose as they are mainly for use of the
department in their routine work of inspection and for improvement.
The main problem of proprietors appears to be the cramped space
in which the restaurants have to work in preparing the meals, but
even this cramping of space has been overcome in many cases by