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MEAT AND OTHER FOODS
Food Shops. The fifty two butchers shops within the Borough
have been Inspected and observation kept upon the vehicles used
for the conveyance of meat, with the result that it has been
found that the provisions of the Public Health (Meat) Regulations
have generally been well observed.
Action was taken in eleven cases where the sanitary conditions
were not satisfactory, or certain contraventions of the
Regulations existed.
At the end of 1951, forty seven premises had been registered
in accordance with Section 14 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
The majority of the registered premises are concerned with
the manufacture of sausages only.
In eighty nine cases the Insanitary or defective conditions
found to exist In food shops, other than butchers shops, were
satisfactorily dealt with.