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Sheep and lambs:—
One carcase and organs emaciated and dropsical.
Fifteen plucks affected with pneumonia.
One pluck affected with pneumonia and cirrhosis.
One liver affected with coccidiosis.
Eleven livers affected with distomatosis.
One forequarter and pluck affected with pneumonia,.
One breast and pluck affected with pleurisy.
Pigs:—
Two carcases and organs emaciated and dropsical.
Two carcases and organs affected with pyaemia.
One forequarter bruised.
One pluck affected with pneumonia.
One pluck affected with pneumonia and cirrhosis.
One pluck affected with melanosis.
One pluck affected with echinococcus.
Nine plucks affected with tuberculosis.
One head and forequarter affected with tuberculosis.
Eighteen mesenteries affected with tuberculosis.
Two livers affected with tuberculosis.
Twenty-seven heads affected with tuberculosis.
Oxen :—
Carcase and organs affected with tuberculosis.
One head affected with tuberculosis.
Twenty livers affected with distomatosis.
One liver affected with multiple abscesses.
The Regulations also contain requirements relating to the
protection of meat from contamination by dirt and flies in shops,
on stalls and during transit. Twenty-four notices were served for
contraventions of the Regulations.
In one case a stallholder was prosecuted for exposing meat to
contamination, and a fine of 40s., with 21s. costs, was imposed.
The installation of refrigerators is now common, and most of
the shops are provided with this means for the storage of meat.
Seventy visits were made to the food factories in the Borough.
The premises generally were found to be in a clean condition and
the meat sound and free from disease. Six notices were served
for contraventions of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1928.
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.—This Act came into operation
on 1st January, 1934, and contains two main provisions:—
(1) That every animal to be slaughtered shall be instantaneously
slaughtered, or shall by stunning be rendered insensible to
pain until death supervenes, and such slaughtering or