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FOOD INSPECTION.
Regular visits have been paid to the slaughterhouses
in the district for the purpose of inspecting
the carcases of animals at the time of, or immediately
after slaughter.
Forty-one beasts were inspected, 43 calves, 414
pigs, 155 sheep and 53 lambs, giving a total of 706
animals. Of this total 80 animals were affected
with disease in some part, representing 11.33 per
cent. (last year's figure: 7.46 per cent.).
Visits have also been made to the shops,
restaurants, etc., where food is prepared or exposed
for sale.
The number of animals slaughtered in the
Borough continues to decrease but inspection of all
animals killed and all meat exposed for sale in the
shops has been most thorough.
It is worthy of note that although the number
of animals slaughtered within the Borough during
the past eleven years has steadily declined, there
has been no marked decrease in the sale of homekilled
meat.
" National marked " meat appears to be steadily
increasing in popularity, and this remark applies
to other goods bearing the " National mark."
The following foodstuffs found to be unfit for
human food were surrendered by the owners, and
subsequently destroyed:—