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Inspection and Supervision of Food.
(a) Milk Supply.
During 1927 five persons were removed from the
register, due to removal from the town. Seven dairymen
were added to the register, making a total of 43 on
December 31st, 1927, compared with 41 for the corresponding
date in the previous year. There is only one cowkeeper
in the Borough.

(b) Meat and Other Foods.
Once again I have to report increased activity in this
important duty of your Sanitary Inspector. The amount of
slaughtering in the Borough shows no sign of lessening;
in fact, although the actual number of animals is not available,
there was a definite increase during 1927 compared
with 1926, the total being estimated at 8,350. The increase
was specially noticeable in the number of beasts slaughtered,
and it may be due to the fact that one neighbouring
authority now has no slaughter-house at all, the last one
being closed early in 1927. Animals which would, in the
ordinary way, have been sent to that district are now killed
in Kingston. In addition, butchers from other districts
near by send their animals into Kingston, or buy them at
Kingston and arrange for them to be collected and
slaughtered at one or other of the private slaughter-houses.
A further cause for the increase was the frequent restrictions
placed upon the movement of live animals owing to foot
and mouth disease. Animals could only be sent to the
market if they were intended for immediate slaughter, but
no live animals could be sent out of the area. All the
animals, therefore, had to be killed in Kingston, and then
the owners could remove the carcases to any destination in
or out of the restricted area.