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PRIVATE SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACT. 1958.
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT. 1958.
The Report as to the slaughterhouse requirements of the District and as to the
existing slaughtering facilities, required by Section 3 of the Slaughterhouses Act,
1958, and the Slaughterhouse (Reports) Direction 1959, was submitted to the
Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food, during October of this year. This
Report was to assist the Minister in appointing a date at which the Slaughterhouses
(Hygiene) Regulations, 1958, and the Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty)
Regulations, 1958, would be brought fully into force for the District, the
Regulations held in abeyance being mainly concerned with certain structural matters.
The Report detailed the interested organisations consulted in arriving at the
conclusions reached, and declared that the one privately-owned slaughterhouse
operating in Barnet Urban District appeared to be sufficient for the needs of the
District, by virtue of the receipt from the Ministry of a small "export" grant in
respect of inspection of meat, calculated on the throughout and on the population
concerned, which latter was not expected greatly to increase under present Town
Planning restrictions.
Considerable works of improvement were being undertaken at this slaughterhouse,
and the Report recommended that 1st July, 1961 , should be the day appointed
by .the Minister for the construction Regulations to apply in Barnet in their
entirety.
At the close of the year, acceptance by the Minister of the Report was still
awaited, and improvement works were progressing.
lour inspectors maintain a high percentage of meat inspection by evening and
week-end visits at the slaughterhouse, where slaughtering is carried out on six
days per week, the exception being Friday; the general system with regard to the
timing of slaughtering is that adult Bovines are slaughtered early in the day's
work, proceeding to the "smalls" and in this latter category, calves are usually
left until last.
This accounts for the 100% inspection of Cattle and Cows, shown in the
following table, and the lower percentage of inspection for Calves.