[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1922
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Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An inspector is in constant attendance at the public abattoir whilst the 71 private slaughter-houses were regularly visited, some daily, and others once, twice, or thrice weekly. Speaking generally, the standard of cleanliness of these private slaughter-houses is fairly high, though some of them are so dilapidated as to make thorough cleansing impossible. An extension of the public abattoir is urgently needed in order to permit of some of the worst of these private slaughter-houses being closed. New Bye-laws for the management of privately owned slaughter¬ houses came into force during the year. A copy Was sent to every occupier so that there is no longer any excuse for non-observance. Two occupiers were warned for infringement of the bye-laws but in neither case was the offence grave enough to Warrant prose¬ cution. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES IN USE. 1914- January, 1922. December, 1922. Public Abattoir 2 1 1 Private slaughter-houses (registered) 63 63 61 Do. (licensed) 10 8 7 Knackers’ Yard 2 2 2 There were 7,801 visits paid to slaughter-houses and 8,250 visits to sausage and potted meat factories, markets, shops and stations. The Ministry of Health issued a memorandum on Meat In¬ spection in June from which extracts were made and issued in the form of a handbill to all butchers and slaughter-men, with a recom¬ mendation that it should be exposed in a prominent place in the slaughter-house. Pig slaughtering still continues to be carried on in unauthorised premises. The public ought to know by this time that this is illegal, and persons found in default lay themselves open to a severe penalty. Several consignments of tinned fruit, relics of the war, were seized as being unsound and unfit for food, and destroyed. The