[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C.

  • Brackley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Meat Ins[>ection. Your Senior Sanitary Inspector is qualified to inspect and examine meat and foods in the district. The inspection of meat is carried out according to the standard laid down in the Memoran- dum 62/Foods. Up to the time that centralised slaughtering came into oper- ation routine visits were made to the private slaughterhouses scattered throughout the district for the purpose of examining the carcases and viscera of animals which had been slaughtered for the purposes of human consumption. Frequent visits are made to the Butchers’ $hops within the district. The amount of food condemned during the year is set out in the following table. The decision of the Sanitary Inspector was accepted in all cases where meat or food had of necessity to be condemned. Description. PORK. I Head and Tongue... I Spleen I Heart j Pairs Lungs English Green Bacon ... I Carcase and Viscera. BEEF. Piece of Beef MUTTON. Weight. Disease or Condition 14 lbs. 3 ozs. 12 ozs. gibs 8 ozs. 14 lbs. 70 lbs. Tuberculosis Neoplasms Pericarditis Pneumonia Decomposition Emaciation Associated with Valvm- lar Verrucose Endo- carditis 108 lbs. 7 ozs. 4 lbs. 4 lbs. Nil. Decomposition Following are details of the number of carcases or parts of carcases examined by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year in the Butchers’ Shops throughout the district, viz. :— BEEF. 13 hind quarters, 21 fore quarters, 4 sides. VENISON. I carcase. PORK. whole carcases, 3 sides. MUTTON : 24^ whole carcases, ']\ sides.