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day of the week except Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Casual
notices were received in respect of all the slaughter houses
in addition to the permanent notices. The casual notices
referred to slaughtering carried out at irregular times on each
day of the week including Saturdays and Sundays.
Over 99 per cent. of the animals slaughtered in the town
during 1926 were inspected.
The work of meat and foods inspection is not confined
to the examination of carcases slaughtered in the Borough.
Visits are made to all kinds of food premises, such as
restaurants, sausage making rooms, ice cream makers, bakehouses,
grocers, etc., etc. The total of such visits made
during the year was 1,523.
The wholesale meat stores, and the vehicles used, have
been kept under observation during the year.
Records are kept of all notices received, the number of
animals slaughtered and the time of inspection, and the
following table is a summary for the year 1926:—