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intends to slaughter any animal. Thus the Council's Food
Inspectors are enabled to be in attendance at the slaughtering of all
animals in the Borough and to examine the carcases.
Four hundred and eighty-three visits were made to slaughterhouses,
when the carcases of 2,539 sheep, 370 pigs, 13 calves, and
114 oxen were examined. The following were found to be diseased
and were destroyed:—
Carcase and organs of a pig affected with septic
pneumonia.
Carcase and organs of an immature pig.
Part of the carcases of two pigs affected with pleurisy.
Part of the carcase of a pig affected by abscess.
Nine pigs' heads affected with tuberculosis.
Five pigs' mesenteries affected with tuberculosis.
One forequarter of a sheep affected with pneumonia.
Fourteen pigs' plucks affected with pneumonia and
cirrhosis.
Two pigs' plucks affected with tuberculosis.
Two ox livers affected with tuberculosis.
One ox liver and spleen affected by abscess.
The Regulations also contain requirements relating to the
protection of meat from contamination by dirt and flies in shops,
on stalls and during transit. Four notices were served and 22
written warnings given during the year for contraventions of the
Regulations.
In one case a stallholder was prosecuted for insufficiently
screening the meat stall, omitting to have his name and address
inscribed on the stall, and storing meat in a scullery adjoining
two sleeping places. Fines totalling 15s. were imposed.
The installation of refrigerators is now common, and most of
the shops are provided with this means for the storage of meat.
Twenty-four visits were made to the food 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