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44
FOOD INSPECTION AT QUEENBOROUGH.
The inspection of food at Queenborough, under the Unsound Food and Foreign
Meat Regulations, during the first ten months of the year was carried out by Dr. E. V.
Legge, the Assistant Medical Officer stationed at Sheerness, with the occasional
assistance of an Inspector. During the last two months one of the Assistant Medical
Officers attended on two nights a week.
Large quantities of fresh meat from Flushing arrive at Queenborough daily, at
about 6 p.m., and in order to avoid delay in forwarding same to its destination it is
necessary that the inspection should be carried out immediately on arrival.
The meat seized and destroyed on this station during the year was :—
Pig-carcases 1
Pig-livers 610
Pig-lungs 4
Pig-spleens 1
Pig-plucks 16
Sheep-livers 363
Sheep-lungs 2
Sheep-plucks 5
Calf-livers 1
The total weight being 1 ton 0 cwts. 3 qrs. 25 lbs., all of which bore the Official
Certificate of the Netherlands Government, as approved by the Local Government
Board.
A parcel consisting of " scrap meat" imported in contravention of the
Regulations was re-exported. (See page 55.)