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from flies, by clean white gauze muslin or other material, glass
screens, fans, or other efficient means.
The butchers with slaughter-houses were also informed that,
by instructions of the Public Health Committee, all notices of
slaughtering must reach the Public Health Department of the Town
Hall not later than 10 a.m. on the day of slaughter. As the result
. of these notices it has been possible to make a number of inspections
prior to and shortly after slaughter, and in one instance it was
necessary to condemn portions of a carcase.
Doubtless a full enforcement of these Regulations would go a
long way towards securing a considerable improvement in the
general conditions under which the wholesomeness and cleanliness
of meat are safeguarded before it reaches the public; and in respect
to cleanliness there is ample scope for similar regulations relating
to other articles of food.
It is certainly desirable that more frequent inspection of meat
and other food should be carried out in Stoke Newington, but the
existing staff are so fully occupied that it is practically impossible
to materially increase this branch of inspectorial work.
The registration of all places in which meat or other food is
being prepared in any way for human consumption is also most
desirable.
Having in view the fact that the employment of chemical
antiseptics is to be greatly restricted in the near future, cold storage
will be widely adopted and regulations as to such provisions will be
necessary.