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FOOD.
Street Markets and Food.
The number of inspections of premises at which food is prepared or sold, made
by each Inspector during the year, is shown in the Table on page 40.
The following were surrendered or seized and destroyed as unfit for the food
of man : 1 tin of peeled tomatoes, 1 bundle (4 boxes) of tomatoes, 1 tray of chocolate,
56 lbs. of plaice, 5 cwts. of pigs' heads, 20 lbs. of currants and 3 qrs. of haddocks.
Slaughterhouses.
There is only one licensed slaughterhouse in the Borough. No animals however
were slaughtered during the year.
Meat.
The number of butchers' shops under inspection during the year was 54 and
the number of visits of inspection was 92.
General observation was kept of all meat stalls where butchers' meat was exposed
for sale. Ten warning letters were sent in respect of minor infringements of the
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
Legal proceedings were instituted in one case, and the defendant was ordered
to pay £1 10s. costs.
Cowhouses.
Particulars regarding the inspection of the two cowhouses in the Borough are
contained in the Table on page 42.
At the end of the year 26 cows were being kept in these two cowhouses.
1 Structural improvements were carried out during the year at the premises in
St. John's Road whereby the lighting and ventilation were made much better.
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