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SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACT, 1958
This Act was passed to enable the Minister to make amending
regulations recommending minimum standards of construction, lay-out
and equipment for slaughterhouses, and to make regulations dealing
with cruelty to animals. These regulations were made during the
year and will apply to existing slaughterhouses on dates to be
appointed by the Minister for each local authority area.
OFFENSIVE TRADE - BUSINESS OF SLAUGHTERER OF POULTRY
An application was approved by the Council during the year for
the extension for a further five years of an Establishment Order
issued by the Council in 1948 in respect of the business of slaughterer
of poultry at the Woolwich and Plumstead Synagogue. These premises
are used for the slaughtering of poultry only on very rare occasions.
FOULING OF PAVEMENTS BY DOGS
Complaints are received by the Health Department from time to
time of nuisance to the public from dogs. The Health Committee have
considered the publicity to be undertaken to encourage greater
awareness by the public of this nuisance and during the year various
publicity has been given to this subject by the Health Department.
Future publicity is to include the display of notices on lamp-standards
in selected roads adjoining dog walks in the Borough. The notices
will be displayed in each road for a month or so and then moved on
to another road. Other means of publicity have included the use of
postal franking of envelopes, distribution of handbills, and publicity
at health education sessions arranged by the Health Departments No
prosecution was taken during the year for an offence against the
Council's Beylaw, owing to lack of sufficient evidence.
UNSOUND FOOD- EXAMINATION
Altogether 35,172 articles of food, weighing approximately 60
tons were condemned as unfit during 1958. The majority of these
articles, weighing approximately 54 tons, were from the large
Abattoir in the Borough.
UNSOUND FOOD - COMPLAINTS
Forty complaints of alleged unsound food were received by the
Health Department from members of the public during 1958. The
complaints were ail investigated in detail to ensure that where
justified the matter was remedied, and that any defects or malpractices
at food premises were rectified.
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