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each patient treated at home. The number of rooms disinfected
was 303.
Food Supply. The total number of inspections made to
premises where articles of food are prepared or exposed for
sale was 578. These premises include butcher's shops, fish
shops, greengrocers, provision dealers, cooked meat shops,
refreshment houses and bakehouses. Nine infringements of
the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, were discovered,
and remedied during the year. Twenty-three premises used
for the manufacture of " preserved meat" and fifty manufacturers,
dealers, or vendors of ice-cream are registered, in
accordance with Section 89 of the Merton and Morden Council
Act, 1936. At 7 premises sanitary improvements were effected.
Unsound Food. The undermentioned articles of food, were
found upon inspection to lie unfit for human consumption and
were surrendered and destroyed:—
Description.
3 Stone Skate.
50 doz. heads celery.
6 cwts. potatoes.
2 chickens.
2½ stone cod.
26 lbs. Pork.
18 Hungarian Turkeys.
17 Tins Corned Beef.
5 Stone filletted Cod.
5 Tins Corned Beef.
Cause.
Unsound.
do.
do.
Decomposition.
Unsound.
Decomposition,
do.
do.
Unsound.
Decomposition.
Meat Inspection.
CARCASES INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED.
Cattle Cows Calves Sheep Pigs
Number killed None
Number inspected None
No animals were slaughtered in the district during the year.
Practically all meat sold locally comes from wholesale markets
outside the district.
Slaughter-houses. At the end of 1938 only 2 private
slaughter-houses remained on the Register which are used
intermittently for the slaughter of pigs and sheep. These
slaughter-houses are situated at Garth Road, Lower Morden,
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