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Ealing 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Control of Civil Building.
In connection with the Regulations for the Control of Civil
Building, Certificates of Essentiality have been issued in respect
of 881 houses at an estimated cost of £53, 771 13s. 9d.
The Sanitary Inspectors have dealt with all applications for
Building Licences which involved work for which Statutory
Notices under the Public Health Act could have been served.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Meat and Other Foods.—There were no infringements of
the Public Health (Meat) Regulations. No meat is sold from
stalk in the Borough.
There are three private slaughterhouses but no animals were
slaughtered in them during the year.
There is no public slaughterhouse in the Borough.
The Meat Depot which was established in a central position
at the beginning of the war and served a large area in Middlesex
including Ealing, was closed in April on the re-opening of the Central
Meat Market at Smithfield.
The following table indicates the amount of various foodstuffs which have been condemned by the Sanitary Inspectors as unfit for food in the course of their inspections at the meat depot and at the various food premises in the Borough:—
| lbs. | |
|---|---|
| Beef | 2,188 |
| Mutton | 200¾ |
| Veal | 31 |
| Offal | 101¼ |
| Bacon | 227 |
| Fish | 5,272 |
| Sausage Meat | 334¾ |
| Tinned Meat | 5,304 |
| Fruit and Vegetables | 6,736± |
| Confectionery | 4,576 |
| Cocoa | 19,945¾ |
| Cereals | 285 |
| Assorted Food | 25,405 |
| 70,606¾ |
Meat (tins) 497
Milk (tins) 4,375
Fish (tins) 1,393
Assorted Articles 4,765
Eggs 1,700
Assorted tins, jars and packets 745
Tinned Fruit and Vegetables 2,085