A practical guide to meat inspection (Walley) / re-written and enlarged by Stewart Stockman.

Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A practical guide to meat inspection (Walley) / re-written and enlarged by Stewart Stockman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    poultry, game, flesh, or fish appears to such medical officer or inspector to be diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit for the use of man, he may seize and carry away the same himself or by an assistant, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice, who may condemn it and order it to be destroyed. For the purpose of this inspection, power is given to the inspector of nuisances, the officer of health, or any other officer appointed for that purpose, in all urban districts, and in all rural districts to which the provision may be extended by the Local Government Board, at all reasonable times, with or without assistants, to enter into and inspect any building or place whatsoever used for the sale of butcher’s meat, or for slaughtering cattle; and when the building in which the diseased animal or meat is believed to be kept is not such a place, a warrant may be granted by any justice to any such officer on complaint made by him on oath. On the condemnation of the diseased animal or meat, pro- ceedings may be taken against the person to whom the same belongs or did belong at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession or on whose premises the same was found, and he may be punished by fine or imprisonment. Any person obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty is liable to punishment. The provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which apply to the administrative county of London, are similar to those of the Act of 1875, with the undernoted exceptions. The medical officer or sanitary inspector may without a warrant enter any premises for the purposes of his inspection. Before proceedings can be taken against a party in England outside London, there must have been exposure for sale at the time of the seizure ; but in London that is not necessary. In either case it has been decided by the Courts of law that personal knowledge of the party charged is not an element in the offence. Provision is also made for the punishment of sellers or con- signors of diseased meat, when the same is seized in the hands of another party. The Statute also provides for affixing to