[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough.
- Newport (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(c) tlie disposal of by-products tbrougli existing’ channels. The Council provide premises, equipment and services on the lines of the past practice as between tlie Council and private traders which are as follows :•—- (a) the provision at the Slaughterhouse of all facilities for stunning, killing, dressing, hanging, weighing and lairage; (b) the provision of labour for cleaning the premises excepting the cleaning of the slaughter bays and slaughtering equipment after slaughtering: (c) the removal and disposal of manure and condemned meat; (d) the provision of managerial, inspectorial, and clerical staff for performing the Council’s usual functions in connection with the Slaughterhouse. For these services the Ministry pay the ordinary slaughtering, weighing and lairage fees which were charged to private traders before they were superseded by the Ministry. Cattle are received from Monmouthshire and the surrounding Cbunties and occasionally from further afield. The Slaughterhouse is the central slaughtering establishment for supplying the whole of the official home-killed meat quota to Newport, Caerleon, Chepstow, Magor and St. Mellons, Cwmbran and Risca, and in addition sends supplementary supplies to other parts of the country including London and Birmingham. Tr.ansport of Meat It ks 'Satisfactory to riecord that after repret=!entations from fhis Department the main contractor r'esponsil)]e for transporting meat from the Public Abattoir to tbe (xroup Depots and from there to the Retail Butchers, has undertaken to ensure that in future the meat is transported under more hygienic conditions. By the end of the year one new specially constructed vehicle body- with a properly lined container was already in operation and two more were under construction. Meat Inspection at Mabsgeas BUcon Factory Thirty-four thousand pigs were slaughtered at these premises during the year and all were sy.stema.tically inspected by your meat and food inspectors. These pigs were imported to tbe factory from Pembi-okeshii’e, Carmarthenshire, (Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, while the finished](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28866939_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
