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Hornchurch 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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3. Meat.
There are 6 slaughterhouses, 4 registered and 2 licensed, which
are visited regularly by the Sanitary Inspectors and the carcases
inspected.
Carcases and viscera inspected during the year:—
| Cattle | 524 |
| Pigs | 958 |
| Sheep and lambs | 3,086 |
The following table shows the meat or viscera which being found upon inspection to be unfit for human food was surrendered and destroyed:—
| Bovines— | No. |
|---|---|
| Beasts' carcases and organs | 2 |
| Calfs' carcases: and organs | 4 |
| Heads | 36 |
| Livers | 49 |
| Pluck | 3 |
| Hearts | 2 |
| Kidney | 1 |
| Lungs | 49 |
| Brisket | 3 |
| Foreribs | 1 |
| Flank | 1 |
| Side | 1 |
| Leg | 1 |
| Beef, 69lbs. | |
| Pigs- | |
| Carcases | 3 |
| Heads | 12 |
| Pluck | 4 |
| Mesentery | 1 |
| Sheep— | |
| Carcases | 11 |
| Livers | 19 |
| Legs | 2 |
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT, 1933.
In September, 1934, the Council resolved that section 1 of
this Act shall apply to all bovines including sheep and lambs.
This Act requires animals to be stunned or slaughtered by a
mechanically operated instrument so that they shall be rendered
insensible to pain until death occurs.
It is now necessary for all slaughtermen to be registered by the
Council under section 3 of the Act.
15 applications for licences under the Act were received during
the year and all were granted.
Meat Traders.
There are 45 Butchers' shops in the District which are inspected
by the Sanitary Inspectors.