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Other Foods.
There are a number of Factories dealing with food of
various kinds in the Borough, and these, together with the
Retail Shops, Bakehouses (there are 45 underground bakehouses),
and other premises are continually under the observation
of the District Sanitary Inspectors.
7,386 visits were paid during the year 1926.
The Food Inspector, who devotes the greater part of his
time to the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
is charged equally with the other Inspectors with the duty of
safeguarding the sale of food in market streets and other
premises where dietary articles are exposed for sale.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924
and the Slaughter-House By-Laws.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations were introduced
following the report of the Departmental Committee on Meat
Inspection, appointed by the Minister of Health in 1920, and
came into force in 1924.
The Veterinary Surgeon (Mr. H. E. Bywater) and the
Meat Inspector (Mr. T. R. Harris) the officers appointed under
the Regulations report:—
The ante-mortem examinations, which numbered 5,659,
have proved of considerable help in the performance of our
work since, as a result, many animals were noted for a more
searching general or a special local examination following
slaughter.
The number of animals examined after slaughter was
14,147, and of these 1,487 or 10.5% were found to be affected
with some form of disease. This figure includes 1,888 bovines,
of which 485 or 25.7% were tubercular, while 442 or 23.4%
were affected with other diseases: 4,622 swine, of which 149
or 3.2% were tubercular, and 136 or 2.9% were affected with
other diseases; and 7,634 ovines, of which 275 or 30% were
found to be diseased.
Detailed information will be found in Appendix I. as to
the number and percentage of animals found to be diseased.
Appendices II., III. and IV. give particulars of meat
condemned, and indicate the diseases which rendered it
unsound.
The total quantity of meat found to be unfit for human
food is given in Appendix V.