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Barnet 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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Eleven Licences were granted to sell milk under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936 , viz : -
| Tuberculin Tested | 5 |
| Accredited | 1 |
| Pasteurised | 5 |
Eight samples of milk were obtained and taken to the Hill End Hospital Laboratory for examination, viz : -
| Tuborculin Tested Milk | 1 |
| Accredited Milk | 4 |
| Pasteurised Milk | 2 |
| Ordinary Milk | 1 |
All the samples were reported upon as being satisfactory.
PRIVATE SLAUGHTER - HOUSES,
The number of slaughter-houses in the district licensed by the Council under
the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938 is four. One slaughter-house was
not licensed owing to the occupier giving up business, and has been struck off the
register.
Beyond the usual intimations requiring limewashing of premises and removal of
garbage from time to time, the premises were found to be well conducted.
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT.
There are nineteen persons licensed by the Council as fit persons to slaughte:
animals in the district as compared with eighteen in the previous year.
No complaint was received concerning the conduct of any of these men.
Slaughter houses are visited frequently by an Inspector of the R.S.P.C.A.,
who holds an honorary appointment under the Council, thus giving him power to
enter slaughter houses in order to see that animals are humanely slaughtered.