Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department
Date:
[1956]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 29 - The number of inspections are detailed below: - Mbabane Section. Bremersdorp Section General Dealers 70 147 Butcheries 50 73 Government Slaughterhouses 147 62 Resturants — b2 Bakeries 22 5 | Hotels 31 8 African Eating Houses 3 8 Dairies 17 10 Factories and Garages 54 Markets 16 Milk Depots 4 4 Hairdressers 6 2 Mealie Mills mm 8 Mineral Water Factories 9 The under-mentioned foodstuffs were condemned as unfit for human consumption:- 24 x 2 lbs. tins of Jam 9 x 11 lbs. tins of Cooked Ham 60 x 1 lb. tins of Fish 19 x 2 lbs. tins of Canned Fruit 15 x 12 oz. tins of Meat * 27 x l-p lbs. tins of Vegetables, 3 x l| lb. tins of Pickle* 2 x 14- oz. tins of Condensed Milk 00 Meat Supplies. Regular daily meat inspections were carried out by Health Inspectors at Bremersdorp and Mbabane, and in co-operation with the Veterinary Department, Stock Inspectors have carried out these duties at Stegi, G-oedgegun and Hlatikulu. At Bremersdorp, one butchery is equipped with deep freezing facilities for the treatment of meat infected with cysticercistkc\b<yO‘is,'trhereas other members of the trade are required to boil lightly diseased meat before it is exposed for sale to the public. Heavily infected car¬ cases are destroyed. The uncontrolled slaughter and sale of infected meat in the rural areas is becoming a serious mens to the economy and welfare of the territory, and cattle farmers are burdened with a total loss of more than 10/& of beef exported to the Union markets, as a result of infection. BREMERSDORP ABATTOIRS 1956 Month Number Examined Number Passed Nun Re: iber ected Number Frozen Numbe] Cooke< c i Number Destroyed C P S r% U P S C P S C P S C P S C P S January 109 31 34 105 31 34 4 — — 4 — — - - - February 108 35 19 103 34 19 5 1 - 4 — — 1 — -• — 1 -1 March 103 24J 37 99 23 37 4 1 - 3 - - 1 - — — 1 — April 105 25 28 97 25 28 8 - — 5 - - 2 — — 1 - - May 104j 24 27 99 24 27 5 — - 2 - — 3 — — — — — June 118 29 27 117 29 27 1 - 1 - - — — — — — - July 121 31 49 113 29 49 8 2 - 7 - - 1 — — —1 2 — August 132 32 30 119 31 30 13 1 - 8 - - 4 — — 1 1 — Septenber 138 24 36 126 24 36 12 - — 5 - — 5 — — 2 — — October 158 36 49 146 36 49 12 - — 11 — - 1 — — — — — November 132 44 46 129 44 46 3 - - 1 - - 2 — — — — December 138 57 51 126 56 51 12 1 - 7 — — 5 — — •— 1 Totals 1466 392 433 1379 386 433 87 6 - 58 - — 25 - - 4 6 -
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