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FOOD.
The inspection of meat and other foods still continues to
occupy much of the time of the Sanitary Inspectors.
During the year, it was found that meat generally was of
good quality and, at the Moat Distributing Centre, which supplies
the areas of Barnet, Finchley and Henden, the amount of meat
and offal condemned was a very small percentage of the quantity
handled.

Two hundred and fourteen tins and packages and 395 lbs. of
miscellaneous foodstuffs were condemned on account of damage by
enemy action and this amount might have boon much larger but for
the fact that shopkeepers had been visited earlier in the war
and advised to keep foods easily damaged and subject to glass
fragmentation away from windows.
Wherever possible, condemned food has been used for salvage
purposes.
The four private slaughterhouses in the district have been
licensed and used for the occasional slaughter of pigs on permit
from the Ministry of Food.
MILK.
Dairies and milkshops have been inspected and 19 samples
of designated milks have been taken and submitted for analysis
and, with one exception, were satisfactery.
Difficulty is still being experienced by the dairymen with
regard to transport, both before delivery to the dairy from the
producer and after leaving the dairy to the consumer.