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Meat Inspection (Amendment) Regulations, 1971
As mentioned in last year's report, the Council agreed to
the implementation of new maximum charges as from 1st October,
1971, viz 18p for a horse or adult bovine, 5p for a calf or pig
and 4p for a sheep, lamb or goat
The income from this meat inspection service during the
year was £4,381.06
Diseases of Animals Act, 1950
The Regulation of Movement of Swine Order, 1959 continued
in force throughout the whole of the year, and several
hundred movement licences were received from various markets
and dealt with
Towards the end of the year further restrictions were
imposed on the movement of pigs, due to outbreaks of Swine
Vesicular Disease This required conditional licences to be
issued for the outward movement of pigs, in order to prevent
the spread of infection; also a close watch on pig carcases at
our slaughterhouses for any signs of the disease, which clinically
is indistinguishable from foot and mouth disease
Visits to our 12 licensed boiling plants were also increased
as part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food overall
preventive measures, thus enabling us to check the adequacy of
their swill boiling plant and the state of health of their animals;
also the efficiency of movement records, the keeping of which
became a statutory requirement
The Brucellosis (England & Wales) Order, 1972 came into
operation on 1st November, 1972, enabling the Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food to cause animals to be slaughtered
on account of brucellosis on payment of compensation
Sanitary Circumstances
This year's pattern of work followed very much that of the
previous year There was a sustained demand for Qualification
Certificates under the Housing Act, 1969 and the Housing Finance
Act, 1972, which it is anticipated will continue to grow with the
additional publicity now being given to this very topical legislation
A summary of the 33,888 inspections is as follows:-
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