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It has not been found necessary to seize any carcase or
meat inspected in the slaughter houses. Four cows on being
slaughtered were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis, two
were totally destroyed, one forequarter with viscera was destroyed,
and the viscera of one in which a lesion was confined
to the lungs was destroyed.
These cows, which exhibited signs of the disease, were
specially slaughtered for post mortem examination.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The various butchers' shops, and other places where food
is sold, or in preparation for sale for human consumption,
have been inspected very frequently during the year.
No food-stuffs examined (exposed for sale) were found to
be so unwholesome as to be unfit for food, but generally the
fruit, fish and butchers' meat examined throughout the year
were found to be in a healthy and saleable condition.
The Sanitary Inspector was called in by a tradesman to
examine one trunk of whiting, and after the fish was surrendered
and destroyed a certificate as to its condition and
destruction was granted.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
The work under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts is
carried out by the Officers of the Middlesex County Council.