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hold the Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute as Inspectors
of Meat and Foods, visit the slaughter-houses at very frequent
intervals, and, as will be seen by a reference to the Sanitary
Inspector's Report, they paid 2,536 such visits during the year,
when they examined 19,757 carcases, and secured the surrender of
183 carcases and 344 parcels of diseased organs.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
The inspection of slaughterhouses and of animals slaughtered
therein takes up a large amount of the time of the Sanitary Inspectors,
and causes considerable difficulty in view of the fact that
much of the slaughtering takes place between the hours of 5 and 9
at nights.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1925.
Systematic inspection of all butchers' shops and other premises
for the sale of meat and offal was carried out during the year.
With few exceptions it was found that the Regulations were
satisfactorily obeyed
BAKEHOUSES.
All bakehouses in the District are inspected regularly.
OTHER FOODS.
Every shop selling provisions is inspected frequently.
ADULTERATION, ETC.
The Sale of Foods and Drugs Act is under the control of the
Middlesex County Council.
A report thereon, kindly supplied by R. Robinson Esq., Chief
Officer of the Public Control Department follows