[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough.

Inspection and Supervision of Food (continued) Table 7—continued. CATTLE EXCLUD¬ ING cows cows CALVES SHEEP AND LAMBS PIGS HORSES TOTALS Tuberculosis only :— Whole carcases condemned 29 9 1 1 40 Carcases of which some part or organ was condem¬ ned .. 257 106 9 — 334 — 706 Percentage of the number inspected af¬ fected with tuberculosis 2-1 ■ 54 0-7 1-8 0-8 Cysticercosis:— Carcases of which some part or organ was condem¬ ned ............ 3 3 Carcases sub- mitted to treatment by refrigeration Generalised and totally con¬ demned ...... — — — — — — For the first five months of the year the Chief Public Health Inspector undertook the bulk of the work of meat inspection, in addition to his other responsibilities. A full-time meat inspector commenced duty on 1st June, 1960, and since that date carried out all meat inspection during the week. Week¬ ends and holidays were covered by a rota system, worked by the meat inspector and the other public health inspectors. 100 per cent, inspection of all animals killed was maintained. Other foods condemned included a small percentage of the throughput of wet fish, due to delay on the railway during warm weather, and tins, jars, and packets of foodstuffs, mainly from provision merchants. Con¬ demned foodstuffs are disposed of by incineration in the Corporation incinerator at West Bridge Depot. (See Table 8, page 43).