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E (3) Meat and Food Inspection
E (3)a Slaughterhouses
Slaughtering, which formerly took place at the two
private slaughterhouses daily, in the evenings of at least
three days and on every Sunday has now been regularly
extended to Saturday mornings, and from the entries on the
prescribed table, it will be seen that slaughtering is nothing
less than formidable. As in previous years, a 100% inspection
service has been given but it is most apparent that the
incumbent duties of meat inspection are taxing the manpower
resources of the Department to the full and is now
equivalent to the whole time service of a Public Health
Inspector.
It was hoped that the Slaughterhouses Act, 1958, which
came into operation on 1st August, 1958, would have made
provision for regulating and stabilising hours of slaughtering.
Unfortunately, however, no such amendment was made,
and until this important matter is rigidly dealt with, an
exacting situation which has to be coped with by Public
Health Inspectors, will continue, at the same time prejudicing
equally important public health work.