[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Orkney County & Kirkwall Burgh.

  • Orkney (Scotland). County Council
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Orkney County & Kirkwall Burgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Exempted premises. It is impossible to state the number of premises from which lk is sold to neighbours in small quantities. There are hundreds such places throughout the County, which in general is too attered to allow of the trade being confined to registered dairies. There are however, a few districts where in the near future will be possible to prohibit the sale of milk from unregistered emises, and this possibility is being kept very much in mind, Milk and Dairies (Scotland) Order, 1954. The requirements of this Order are, on the whole, well served but a few of the old registered dairies should have suitable iry sculleries, as the Order forbids the use of domestic boilers r washing dairy utensils. This matter is also having attention. Other figures required by the Department are given belcw:- Retail Purveyors - 18. Wholesale Dealers - 72. Approximate No. of Cows. - 1700. Slaughterhouses and Meat Inspection. The slaughterhouses in the Burghal and Landward areas have ?n well managed and kept in a clean and sanitary condition. The fuse from the slaughterhouses, including condemned meat and offals^ removed to dumps in the landward area and kept under proper ntrcl. During the year a new drainage system was installed at inby Slaughterhouse and is working successfully. The drainage -m this slaughterhouse was defective and had been giving rise to np]aints of nuisance in the neighbourhood. Figures for slaughtering and meat inspection are given below. :ss of ;tle 5ep Kirkwall Slaughterhouse, animals. Number of animals Slaughtered 1706 2019 693 Wholly Partly Condemned. 19 14 3 1 1 Weight in lbs. of meat etc. dcndffimned, 12,463. 138 208 :tle jep 5s ;tle iep Strcmness Slaughterhouse. 328 6 1 3380 206 1 26 Landward Sia ugh t e rhou s e s. 266 1101 1 1452 2
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