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These functions may be summed up as ensuring that stores shall be kept
clean and that the transport and handling shall be carried out in a cleanly manner.
A circular letter of the Ministry of Health of the 12th June makes it clear that
whereas a person engaged in the handling or transport of meat "shall not permit
any part of the meat to come into contact with the ground" (Part VI. 21 (2) (a) ).
The word "ground" is not intended to apply to any part of a ship, vehicle or building.
Further that in the application of the Regulations to ships each deck of a
ship would in itself form one or more separate "compartments"; effective
separation of meat and other cargo on the same deck would permit that meat may
be carried on that deck without special covering.
The spirit of the Regulations is quite well maintained by stevedores, railway
companies, and the Port of London Authority; the provision of hygienic aluminium
runged slings and the cleansing of barges and railway trucks mark the initiative
of the persons responsible for condition rather than incentive by the inspectors,
under the Regulations. On but few occasions has the attention of offenders had
to be called to the duties imposed on them.
TUBERCULOSIS ORDER OF 1925 (No. 2).
Meat Inspection.
Circular 616, dated August, 1925, was received from the Ministry of Health
accompanied by the above Order made by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals' Acts.
The Order is as follows:—
(4002.)
ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
(Dated 5th August, 1925.)
Tuberculosis Order of 1925.
(No. 2.)
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested
in him under the Disease of Animals' Acts, 1894 to 1925, and of every other power enabling
him in this behalf, hereby orders as follows:—
1. The Tuberculosis Order of 1925 shall be read and have effect as if the following
Article was therein inserted after Article 5:—
Procedure in respect of slaughter of animals where the carcases are proposed to be used for
human consumption.
5a. (i.) Where a Local Authority propose to slaughter an animal under this Order and
to dispose of its carcase or any part thereof for human consumption, a copy of the notice of
intended slaughter served under the preceding Article, together with a statement of the address
of the premises on which and the time at which the animal is intended to be slaughtered,
shall be sent by the local authority with all practicable speed to the officer of the Sanitary
Authority (or in Scotland of the Public Health Local Authority) to whom notices of intention
to slaughter are required to be sent by any Regulations made by the Minister of Health (or
in Scotland by the Scottish Board of Health) under the Public Health (Regulations as to
Food) Act, 1907, and in any such case the carcase of the animal or any part thereof shall not
be removed for human consumption from the premises on which the slaughter takes place
except with permission in writing of the Medical Officer of Health or other competent officer
of the Authority having under the Acts relating to Public Health or any local Act power
to inspect and examine meat intended for human consumption. Provided that where a Meat
Inspector has been appointed by a Public Health Local Authority in Scotland in terms of the
foresaid Regulations the permission to be obtained under this Article shall be the permission
of the Meat Inspector.
(ii.) If any carcase is removed in contravention of this Article the person removing or
causing the removal of the carcase shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894.
2. This Order may be cited as the Tuberculosis Order of 1925 (No. 2).
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture and
Fisheries is hereunto affixed this fifth day of August, nineteen hundred
and twenty-five.
F. L. C. FLOUD,
l.s. Secretary.
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