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Milk and Dairies Acts and Orders
Number of accredited milk producers 10
Number of tuberculin tested milk producers 1
Number of other producers 11
Number of retail purveyors 15
148 inspections were made during the year, of cowsheds and
dairies. Five samples were taken from purveyors within the
district, the results of which are enumerated on page 24.
Slaughterhouses and Food Supplies.
There are three slaughterhouses within the district, all of
which are subject to annual licence. One of these slaughterhouses
is that used in connection with the Middlesex County
Hospital at Shenley. The animals killed and dressed at the
other slaughterhouses were regularly inspected, and the table
on page 25 gives details of the carcases examined and parts
condemned. The meat sold in the district was found to be of
a high standard of quality. The owners voluntarily surrendered
diseased or unsound meat when their attention was called to
its condition. Visits to slaughterhouses, during the year,
numbered 126. Other premises where food is sold were also
visited and the food exposed for sale inspected. Five premises
are registered in accordance with the provisions of the Food
and Drugs Act, 1938, for the preparation, etc., of food. Four of
these are sausage preparers and one is a fish-frying establishment.
These premises were visited on several occasions and found to
comply with the requirements of the Act. There are 4 bakehouses
on the register and on inspection these were found to maintain
a high standard of cleanliness.
Factories
The Annual Report of the administration of the Factories
Act, 1937 is shown on page 28. There has been intense industrial
development during the year and the work of revising the
register of factories and of making inspections to ensure that