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Inspectors are enabled to be in attendance at the slaughtering of all
animals in the Borough and to examine the carcases.
Six hundred visits were made to slaughterhouses when the
carcases of 4,073 sheep and lambs, 314 pigs and 196 calves and oxen
were examined. The following were found to be diseased and were
destroyed:—
Calves and Oxen:
Three heads Tuberculous glands.
Three livers Cirrhosis.
Five livers Distomatosis.
Three livers Pyogenic abscesses.
Two livers Tuberculous glands.
Three plucks ,, ,,
Pigs :
Five carcases and organs Generalised tuberculosis.
One head Tuberculous glands.
Three plucks Tuberculosis.
Twelve plucks Pneumonia.
Twelve livers Cirrhosis.
Two livers Degenerated cysts.
One mesentery Tuberculosis.
Sheep:
One carcase Septicaemia.
Seven forequarters Pleurisy.
Eleven livers Cirrhosis.
Four livers Distomatosis.
Four livers Degenerated cysts.
Eleven plucks Pneumonia—strongyli.
Seven plucks Pneumonia and pleurisy.
The Regulations also contain requirements relating to the
protection of meat from contamination by dirt and flies in shops,
on stalls and during transit. Sixty-two notices were served for
contraventions of the Regulations.
Proceedings were taken against the owner of a butcher's shop
for failing to observe due cleanliness in regard to a room in which
meat was exposed for sale and a fine of £3 with one guinea costs was
imposed.
Two hundred and twenty-seven visits were made to the food
factories in the Borough. The premises generally were found to
be in a clean condition and the food sound and free from disease.
Nine notices were served for contraventions of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1928.