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The object of the investigation is the abolition of cruelty
and suffering in the slaughterhouse, if it is proved to be inflicted
in any unnecessary degree, an object which has the
whole-hearted support of every right-thinking member of the
community.
It should be a sine qua non in every slaughterhouse that
the prevailing methods of slaughter should ensure that the
infliction of pain is brought down to the irreducible minimum,
and should it be found that the bye-laws in force within the
district of Finchley require alteration or amendment, no
doubt action will be promptly taken by the Council.
Meat and Food Inspection.
During the year systematic inspection has been made
with a view to the detection of diseased, unsound or unwholesome
food, and to ensure that foodstuff was prepared or stored
under proper sanitary conditions.
The sanitary condition of several business premises where
food is prepared for sale were dealt with and structurally
improved.
In addition to the inspection of slaughterhouses, the
other food premises have been inspected, more particularly
the fishmongers and fried-fish shops, butchers' shops and
sausage-making rooms, fruiterers' premises, cooked-meat
shops, etc. A considerable number of inspections have been
made in this connection at night after the ordinary office
hours.
The slaughterhouses are always visited, as far as possible,
while slaughtering is in progress, and a large number of
carcases have been examined.
The following is a list of the unsound food destroyed during
the year:—
One carcase of pork (tuberculosis), 11 sheeps' livers, 2
pairs of sheeps' lungs, 1 box of skate, and 281bs. -t
potatoes.