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be pooled and that the service should operate from
Finchley.
The Joint Service started on the 1st July and up to the
end of tho year 3,477 oases were removed.
MORTUARY
Forty-six bodies were received in the Mortuary and
nine of these were from Friern Barnet.
FOOD
Food inspection still continues to be an important duty
carried out by your inspectors, 709 visits having been made
during the year to various premises in connection therewith.
In spite of the amount condemned, every precaution is taken
to avoid waste by the careful inspection of foodstuffs, food
preparing premises and stores and the co-operation of traders
and the Ministry of Food.
Whenever possible condemned foods are salvaged, processed
and used for various purposes including animal feeding.
Although the amount of food condemned appears to be
large, there is in the District a Government Meat Distributing
Centre serving Barnet, Finchley and Hendon, Government buffer
stores and several large wholesalers.
The quality of the meat and offals inspected at the meat
centre was generally good as is seen by the small amount
condemned (357 lbs) and shown in tho list below, which includes
that condemned at a private slaughterhouse used for occasional
slaughtering by permission of the Ministry of Food.
No food was damaged by enemy action.