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Coli. shall be present in one tenth of a cubic centimetre.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations, which
came into operation on April 1st, 1925, contain a
number of new provisions for the more adequate
supervision of food premises, one of the most
important being that which requires notice to be
given to the Local Authority before an animal is
slaughtered for sale for human consumption.
I might mention, however, that this practice
has been carried out by the occupiers of the Licensed
Slaughter Houses in the district for some years prior
to the issue of these Regulations, as the Council only
granted a Licence on condition that the Licensee
agreed to give notice of the day and time on which
slaughtering took place and to retain the carcase of
any animal slaughtered until it had been inspected
by Officers of the Public Health Department.
One butcher has given formal notice that he will
slaughter on fixed days and at fixed times, while the
other butchers give notice each time they intend to
slaughter.
Arrangements have been made for the inspection
of all animals slaughtered in the district
at the time of or as soon as possible after slaughter.
Frequent visits have been made to butchers'