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(e) Any other particulars with respect to overcrowding
conditions upon which the Medical Officer of
Health may consider it desirable to report —
During the year 1,866 new houses were built in the Borough
by-private enterprise.
The building of 284 working class dwellings contemplated at
Northolt has not yet been commenced.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Meat and Other Foods.—There were no infringements of the
Public Health (Meat) Regulations. No meat is sold from stalls
in the Borough.
There are three private slaughterhouses and the following
table gives the number of animals slaughtered and inspected during
the year:—
Carcases Inspected and Condemned.
Cattle
excluding
Cows
Cows
Calves
Sheep
Lambs
Pigs
Number killed
40
14
2
777
96
Number inspected
40
14
2
711
96
All Diseases except
Tuberculosis—
Whole carcases condemned
—
—
—
32
1
Carcases of which some part
or organ was condemned
—
—
—
1
1
Percentage of the number
inspected affected with
diseases other than tuberculosis
—
—
—
4.2
1.0
Tuberculosis only—
Whole carcases condemned
—
1
—
—
1
Carcases of which some part
or organ was condemned
5
—
—
—
3
Percentage of the number
inspected affected with
tuberculosis
12.5
7.1
—
—
4.1
There is no public slaughterhouse in the Borough.
As a result of the war a Meat Depot serving a large area in
Middlesex, embracing Ealing, was established in a central position.
This Depot threw a large amount of work upon the Sanitary
Inspectors who have had to inspect a large quantity of meat there
daily.