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(6) Meat.
Although a large proportion of the meat consumed
is brought from the London Markets, there was a total of
6,093 animals slaughtered within the District during the
year, every one of which was inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors.
The Local Authority, under existing legislation, has
no power to fix the day or hour at which slaughtering
shall take place at the various slaughter-houses, and, in
order to ensure that all animals slaughtered for human
consumption are inspected before removal, the Sanitary
Inspectors are often called upon to attend at the slaughterhouses
quite late at night and on Saturday afternoons
and Sunday mornings.

Unsound Food.
The following articles of food were found to be
unfit for human consumption and destroyed:—
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