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Food and Food Premises.
188 Pairs of Lungs Congestion
126 Ditto Pneumonia
8 Ditto Pleurisy
27 Heads Tuberculosis
1 Ditto Abscess
2 Hindquarters Dropsy
45 Heads and Collars Tuberculosis
1 Spleen Tuberculosis
4 Plucks Pneumonia
12 Ditto Tuberculosis
13 Hearts Pericarditis
2 Forequarters Tuberculosis
1 Leg and Loin Traumatic (injury)
11 Mesenteries Tuberculosis
2 Sets of Offal Tuberculosis
1 Udder Mammitis
2 Kidneys Nephritis
40 lbs. of Pork Limeburn
4 Kidneys Tuberculosis
As stated above, the number of carcases inspected during
the year under review was 10,741, compared with 8,399 in 1928
and 5,494 in 1927. As will be seen by these figures the work
of meat inspection at the slaughterhouses has almost doubled
during the past two years. This is partly due to the demand
for home killed meat created by the energetic campaign of the
Empire Marketing Board.
There are 238 butchers shops in the Borough, 1,882 inspections
were made of these shops and the meat exposed for sale
has been examined regularly.
Under the Public Health Meat Regulations, 1924, every
butcher is required to do all that is reasonably necessary to
guard against the contamination of meat by flies, filth and dust.
It is satisfactory to say that this Order is generally observed
by butchers. There were no prosecutions during the year.
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