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(b) Meat.
Although a large proportion of the meat consumed is
brought from the London Markets, there was a total of
8,138 animals slaughtered within the District during the
year, every one of which was inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors. This represents a large increase over the
previous year, and consequently an increasing amount of
the Sanitary Inspectors' time has to be devoted to meat
inspection.
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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