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Slaughter Houses and Food Inspection.— The number of
registered slaughter houses is five. Three of these, however,
have not been used for some considerable time.
Seventy-seven inspections have been made during the year,
whilst slaughtering was in progress, and all animals killed in
the town have been examined prior to being exposed for sale.
The following is a list of organs, etc., condemned and
destroyed, with the cause for such action:—
3 sets Pigs' Lungs Ecchymosis
3 sets Pigs' Lungs and Heart Tumour
7 sets Pigs' Livers and Lungs. Inflammation
2 Hindquarters Pork. 1
1 Shoulder Pork Bruised
2 Bullocks' Lungs and Livers Multiple Abscesses
2 Bullocks' Livers Flukes
Cow's Liver and Mesenteric
Fat Tuberculosis
It will be noticed that the number of inspections are less
than in the previous year; this is due to the fact that one
slaughter-house was not used for nearly six months.
In addition 267 visits have been made to shops of butchers,
fishmongers and fruiterers, and other places where food is prepared
or exposed for sale, and the following were surrendered
and destroyed as trade refuse, being unfit for human food:—
7 stone Skate Unsound
12 stone Sole Unsound
141b. Loin of Pork Tainted and foul smelling
6 stone Spragg Unsound
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1907.- Two samples
were submitted to the Council's Analyst, one being a sweetmeat
and one a lemon. In the first case a child was stated to have
purchased some sweets from a shop and after having eaten a
portion of it he was taken with violent sickness. 1 immediately
investigated the cause of the complaint and obtained a specimen
which I submitted to the Analyst who reported that he
was unable to find any matter which was likely to give rise to
such a condition. I also communicated with the makers of the
sweetmeat, who replied giving me the composition of the article
in question. From my subsequent enquiries I found that
the child had not suffered any further effects and could, therefore,
only conclude that the sweetmeat could not have been the
cause of the sickness, in view of the fact that a number of other
children had had sweets from the same consignment without
ill-effect.
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