[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Berwick-upon-Tweed U.D.C.

  • Berwick-upon-Tweed (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Berwick-upon-Tweed U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'I'OWN SUPPLY. Uatlle slaughtered for tlie town consumption hy tlie butcliers of the town, all of which were home feci, our allowance per week was i6 fat cattle ecpial to 720 st. of beef, while we had 70 sheep per week allotted to us, about -},2oo lbs.,and 4 pigs. h'rom this you will see that in this tenable trying war time ISeiwick has not been reduced to starvation, and has lurthing to complain of. 1 have ollcn heard it stated by people that the way we have been comi>elled to live has been the cause of this rather serious epidemic of influeitza ; as far as butcher meat is concerned this shoidd be sufficient (;ontradic:tion. Prom all the above animals there must necessarily be a consid- erable amount of offal, and you naturally ask what becomes of that, d'he intestines are regularly taken away and made inter sausage skins, casings, and fiddle strings. 'The bags aie made into tripe, and a cjuantity of the blood is made into black puddings. These cleaned and ])rep)ared tri])es and puddings have been a great help in provid- ing chea]) meals for the poor, many of whom have large families. 'I'he places where these articlesmre^ir^red are regularly visited as to cleanliness ; the cpiality of the is carefidly nerted, and have been found on trial to be most wholesome food, and it is very rarely there is a fault to find. (In h'lance they are even sold as a delicacy, but are known by more savoury names.) What is not available for food is c arted away to the manure works and made into fertilisers. The skins are all treated by a fellmonger in the P.orough for various coverings, etc. I'he trotters are utilised for variotrs pur poses--the hoots arc* made into ghre, large bones into knife handles, etc., artd the wool oil the feet goes to make plasterers’ lirtre. The nrrruber ol cattle, shee]>, etc., condemned as unfit for human food ditrirtg the yc-.rr is as follows :— P.acort fronr varioits tradesmen in town 8(77lb.s. sent to factory U.rrcasr' of bullock diseased by tirbercrthrsis ...280 n destroved. ]‘'ics!i .Mirtton unfit ti ,, Frozen beef 6.jS u „ fip M sent back. (a)nden.,ed Milk in Prrlp Jars 224 destroyed. Orte \\ agon 1 .oad of Herrings from Varmortth fjcrrtlemen, 1 think the necessity for a public slaughter house in
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