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Wholesale Grocers. 359 inspections were made and 3
notices served.
Fish Shops & Stalls. 646 inspections were made and 8
notices served.
Retail Grocery & Provision Shops, etc. 321 inspections
were made and 12 notices served. Thirtyeight notices were
served in respect of miscellaneous food premises.

Meat Inspection.
Cysticercus Bovis (Measly Beef). In November, the
Ministry of Food circularised Local Authorities drawing
attention to evidence of cysticercus bovis in cattle in
different parts of the country, including Scotland.
The most commonly affected sites are the muscles of
mastication, the heart, the head, the tongue and the pillars
of the diaphragm.
Inspection of the carcases in the slaughterhouse guards
materially against infested meat finding its way to the
public, but as an added safeguard, visits were made by the
Council's Meat Inspectors to all butchers, offal dealers and
prepared meat dealers in the borough. The fullest information
was given to them on the method of inspection for the
detection of the disease and they were advised to communicate
immediately with the Public Health Department if they came
across any suspected cases. In addition to these visits,
a circular letter was sent to all dealers concerned.
Caseous Lymphadenitis in imported mutton. Under the
Public Health.(Imported Food) Regulations, 1937, the importation
of meat from which a lymphatic gland had been taken
out was prohibited except in the case of a gland necessarily
removed in preparing the meat.
As a result of the Public Health (Imported Food) Amendment
Regulations, 1948, which came into operation on 1st May,
1948, such prohibition does not now apply to imported mutton
and lamb. The method of inspection and judgment of carcases
has also been amended by Memo.62B Foods, issued by the Ministry
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