[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City.

  • Peterborough (England). City Council. nr 94004832.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Market Stalls, Butchers’ Shops, Making-up Premises and also Vans in the Streets from which food is sold, are frequently inspected—such visits being too numerous to tabulate in detail. KNACKERS’ PREMISES.—2 licensed and a number of visits have been paid thereto. SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT, 1933.—97 persons are licensed under the above Act, 16 being granted during the year. FOOD SURRENDERED AND DESTROYED. The following have been condemned, surrendered and destroyed as unfit for human food :— For Tuberculosis l,297f stones of beef (18,168 lbs.) Included in the foregoing is the whole carcase and edible offa^- of 11 Ox Beasts, 9 Heifers and 10 Cows. Also :— 1 Ox Beast (Dropsical) 30 stones. 1 Ox Beast (General Bruising) 44 stones. 1 Calf (Inflammation and Dropsy) 6 stones. 8 Pigs (Generalised Tuberculosis) 821- stones. 6 Pigs (Inflammation and Dropsy) 40j stones. 6 Pigs (Erysipelas) 52J stones. 2 Pigs (Pneumonia) 8 stones. 4 Pigs (Fevered and unmarketable) 40 stones. SUNDRIES A large number of pigs’ heads (localised tuberculosis) andaquantity of beasts’ pigs’ and sheep’s edible offal.