[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Castleford Borough.

  • Castleford (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Castleford Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Meat Supplies. The neat supplies of the tov/n are derived partly fron aninals killed within the Borough and partly by the purchase of carcases of aninals killed outside the Borough. Pron casual observance it would seen that the quantity of neat sold into the town by outside wholesalers is considerable whilst the supplies killed within the district rest largely with one wholesaler operating within the Borough slaughterhouse. In brief, the nunber of butchers buying on the hoof is very snail and the trade is tending to drift very rapidly into the hands of the wholesalers. Apart fron any other aspect this drift is helping to create a serious shortage of trained slaugiitemen and one is bound to look with apprehension to the future. As the cour].try is nov\^ without a policy on slaughterhouses districts nove on a day-to-day basis, with the smaller authorities tending to lean on their larger neighbours. Whilst some business firms still use their cmn slai ghterhouses and employ their ov7n nen the general drift of trade is to the public abattoirs and unless these centres recruit and train young nen to the work one can foresee the tine v^hen the trade lacks a vital factor - the agency for killing and dressing the animal carcases. 1 During the year Your Council continued to operate the former C.W.S, slaughterhouse as a public slaughterhouse and a full report on this will follow at a later stage. 1 In addition three private slaighterhouses were licensed with two operating regularly and one spasmodically. During the year the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Pood issued Model Byelaws relating to Sanitary Conditions and Management of Public and Private Slaughterhouses* These byelaws were adopted by the Corporation and approved by the Mihistry in October,1956. The Byelaws control the keeping of animals in slaughterhouses the cleanliness, ventilation and drainage and the provision of sanitary conveniences, washing facilities* Other provisions require proper receptacles for offals and blood and manure* Occupiers of slaughterhouses have been notified of the Byelaws and steps are being taken to implement then* As in fomer years all carcases were inspected as near the tine of slaughter as possible and the following tables give details of the work* These relate to all aninals killed in the district and not merely to those killed at the public abattoir* It will be seen that there was a considerable increase in the numbers killed - particularly of cattle other than cows and sheep, with a falling off in the nimber of pigs:- -9-