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Food Inspection.- The seven regulated slaughterhouses are
visited on all stipulated days of slaughtering and frequently on
unstipulated days, but no breach of the Meat Regulations has been
observed. With the exception of the horse slaughtering premises,
which is rarely used, the cleansing and quarterly limewashing is
carried out in accordance with the byelaws. Six hundred and
eighteen visits were paid, in the course of which the following
quantities of meat on examination were found to be diseased or
unwholesome and were surrendered for destruction:- Carcases of
pigs, 4,705 lbs. (of which 2,957 lbs. were tuberculous, 396 lbs.
dropsical flesh, 968 lbs. fevered, 192 lbs. jaundiced, 152 lbs. emaciated,
and 40 lbs. of otherwise unwholesome meat), beef, 79 lbs., unfit on
account of bone taint, 815 pigs' lungs, 186 pigs' livers. It is not
reasonably possible to see every animal that is killed on account of
the varying times that slaughtering takes place. One slaughterman
risked sending to the market a carcase that had not been examined
here instead of waiting until the morning and telephoning me. The
carcase was found to be diseased, was destroyed, and the slaughterman
heavily fined. This will act as a deterrent for the future. A
box of kippers, 12 lbs., basket of plums, 70 lbs., and a fowl was
brought to me for examination by tradesmen and found unfit for
human food, and was destroyed and a certificate given to that effect.
Disinfection and Disinfestation.—Disinfection has been carried
out at 354 houses, either by fumigation or the spraying of a liquid
disinfectant, after removal of infectious cases to the Wandle Valley
Isolation Hospital or treatment at home. Bedding and clothing is
removed for disinfection by superheated steam at the same institution.
Sixty-three bug infested rooms were treated with a special
fumigant or sprayed with an insecticide to exterminate the vermin.
In nearly every case it has been necessary to remove mouldings and
a floor board or two temporarily in order to get at the insects and
their breeding places. The spraying of ponds and ditches with
paraffin to keep down the mosquito nuisance has been carried out
as in other years.
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928.
Licences have been granted to 76 persons in the district to
store petroleum spirit and to three persons to store carbide of calcium.
The permissable quantity of spirit which might be stored on their