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Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.—These Regulations
require that notice shall be given to the Council by any person who
intends to slaughter any animal. Thus the Council's Food Inspector
is enabled to be in attendance at the slaughtering of all animals in
the Borough and to examine the carcases.
Four hundred and forty-four visits were made to slaughterhouses,
when the carcases of 3,877 sheep, 384 pigs, 9 sows,
39 calves, 170 oxen and heifers, 3 cows and 2 boars were examined.
The following were found to be diseased and were destroyed:—
Carcase and organs of a heifer affected with tuberculosis.
Pluck and mesentery of an ox affected with tuberculosis.
Carcase and organs of a sheep affected with dropsy.
Lungs and ribs of five pigs affected with pleurisy.
Part of a pig affected with a ruptured pelvis.
Parts of 2 pigs affected with peritonitis.
14 ox and 12 sheep livers affected with distomatosis.
5 ox livers affected with multiple abscesses.
4 sheep plucks affected with parasitic cysts.

The screening of meat on sale at stalls and shops has been
maintained, but stallholders are found to require constant supervision
in this respect. The installation of refrigerators is now
common and most of the larger shops are provided with this means
for the storage of meat.
Thirty-seven visits were made to the four wholesale meat
factories in the Borough. On each occasion the premises were
found to be in a clean condition and the meat sound and free from
disease.
Unsound food.—The following foodstuffs were examined and
condemned by the Council's Food Inspectors and surrendered to
the Council for destruction in accordance with Section 47 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891:—