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Barnet 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet UDC]
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PRIVATE SLAUGHTER-HOUSES AND
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT, 1933.
There is only one slaughterhouse, privately owned, operating in the district
and your inspectors maintain a high percentage of inspection by evening and
week-end visits.
The information and form in which it is given below is not as desired by the
Ministry but sufficient records have not been kept for the purpose.
However a new system of recording was introduced at the end of this year which will enable the requisite detailed analysis to be made of the percentage of animals affected by disease in one form or other for the next annual report.
| Number of Animals Slaughtered and Inspected | 15,468 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspected | Entire Carcase Condemned. | Part Carcase Condemned. | |||
| Tuberculosis | Other Diseases | Tuberculosis | Other Diseases | ||
| Bovines excluding Calves | 1097 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Calves | 6843 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Sheep and Lambs | 1618 | - | - | - | - |
| Pigs | 5910 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
Offals Condemned (Exclusive of entire carcases condemned).
| Head | Lungs | Liver | Kidneys | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuberculosis | Other Diseases | Tuber- culosis | Other Diseases | Tuberculosis | Other Diseases | Tuberculosis | Other Diseases | |
| Bovine | 56 | 1 | 64 | 22 | 18 | 225 | 6 | 2 |
| Ovine | - | - | - | 15 | _ | 14 | - | |
| Porcine | 80 | 2 | 3 | 55 | 2 | 8 | - | 1 |
Total weight of carcase neat condemned 4,799 lbs.
Total weight of offals condemned 6,072 lbs.
The Council acts as agent for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Pood in the matter of Deadweight Certification of Pigs. During the year your
inspectors have issued 243 certificates covering 1,063 pigs.
For this service the Council receives from the Ministry 6d per pig