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Slaughterhouses.
Three licences were renewed during the year. The licensing of two
slaughterhouses was again deferred pending the execution of essential repairs.
There is no horse-slaughtering establishment within the borough.
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
Ten slaughter-men were on the register of the department at the end
of the year.
Food Inspection.
Diseased and unsound conditions found in meat caused the detention and
surrender for destruction of a total weight in carcases (or portions of carcases)
of l,769lbs., details of which are given in the following table:—
lbs.
Beef 901
Mutton and lamb 450
Pork Nil
Other meats 418
The following foodstuffs, other than meat, being unfit for human consumption,
were voluntarily surrendered for destruction:—
Eggs 256
Fowls 6
lbs.
Bacon 29
Butter 60
Cheese 24
Cooked meat 83
Fish 3,679
Flour and cereals 425
Jam 178
Chocolate 4
Cake mixture 66
Biscuits 121
Sugar 142
Swedes 7,728
Potatoes 3,136
Tea 71
Fruit 343
Canned Foodstuffs.
Tins.
Fish 648
Fruit 505
Meat 261
Milk 1,575
Vegetables 1,092
Other 719
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