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may be excluded by resolution. The requirement applies to pigs, but if electrical
energy is not available this is a defence to proceedings unless it can be shown by
the prosecution that electricity can reasonably be made available. Provision is
made for slaughtering by Jews or Mohammedans for their co-religionists. In
accordance with the provisions of Section 2, the Council at their meeting on the
3rd January, 1934, resolved that Section 1 should, on and from the 1st February,
1934, apply to sheep, ewes, wethers, rams and lambs, and they decided not to pass
a resolution exempting goats or kids.
The Act places on local authorities a new duty, that of licensing slaughtermen,
and licences once granted are available throughout England and Wales. In this
matter the Council decided as follows:—
(a) That licences for slaughtermen be for a period not exceeding one year, and
shall expire on the same day that slaughterhouse licences expire ;
(b) That renewals be for a period of one year;
(c) That a charge of two shillings be made for each original licence;
(ii) That a charge of one shilling be made for each renewal.
The number so licensed during the year was nineteen.
The Act gives statutory force to requirements for slaughterhouses and knackers'
yards most of which, apart from slight differences, have long been normal in the
by-laws of local authorities in respect of slaughterhouses, and they also give the
right of inspection to the Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector at any
time when business is or appears to be in progress, or is usually carried on.
Slaughterhouses.—There is no public slaughterhouse in the Borough. Slaughterhouses
are subject to annual licence and in Table No. 27, which follows, are shown
those licensed at the end of the year.

Inspection of Imported Meat.—In Woolwich, as in other parts of the country,
much imported meat is sold. In the usual way this meat comes from the London
markets after inspection, and such inspection as it receives in Woolwich takes place
in the butchers' shops where it is exposed for sale. Occasionally, however, the Port
°f London Sanitary Authority allows foreign meat to be removed from the Port of
London without examination on the understanding that:—(a) the meat shall be