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One application for the registration of premises for the sale
of ice cream was refused as the premises were unsuitable for this
purpose.
Seventeen samples of ice cream were submitted to bacteriological
examination during the year, and a satisfactory result was
obtained in each case.
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
Inspectors are enabled to be in attendance at the slaughtering of all
animals in the Borough and to examine the carcases.
Six hundred and seventy-six visits were made to slaughterhouses,
when the carcases of 4,170 sheep and lambs, 922 pigs and
168 calves and oxen were examined. The following were found to
be diseased and were destroyed:—
Calves and Oxen :
One carcase and organs
Five heads
Five livers
Six livers
Two livers
Two plucks
Four mesenteries
Pigs :
One carcase and organs
One carcase and organs
One carcase and organs
One forequarter and head
One loin
One leg
Thirty-four heads
Thirteen plucks
Thirty-eight plucks
Ten plucks
Forty livers
Six livers
Thirty-seven mesenteries
Sheep:
One carcase
Four livers
Four livers
Eight plucks
Generalised tuberculosis.
Tuberculous glands.
Cirrhosis.
Distomatosis.
Pyogenic abscesses.
Tuberculous glands
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Generalised tuberculosis.
Septicaemia.
Septic pneumonia and oedema.
Tuberculous glands.
Pyonephrosis.
Bruising.
Tuberculous glands.
Tuberculosis.
Pneumonia.
Congestion and pericarditis.
Cirrhosis.
Tuberculosis.
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Pyaemia.
Degenerated cysts.
Distomatosis.
Pneumonia—strongyli.
The Regulations also contain requirements relating to the
protection of meat from contamination by dirt and flies in shops,
on stalls and during transit. Thirty-three notices were served for
contraventions of the Regulations.