British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 822

CHAPTER XIX.

The figures in respect of slaughter stock do not cover the whole of the consumption in Palestine, since they do not include the majority of Arab villages and many Jewish settlements. The population covered by the slaughter house areas may, however, be taken as representing about 80% of the Jewish community and 38% of the Arab.

8. The following table shows the imports of meat and the quantities of meat estimated to have been derived from animals slaughtered in Palestine.

Table 8.

MEAT IMPORTED AND OBTAINED BY LOCAL SLAUGHTER (in tons).

1930

1931

1937

1938

1945

(a) Meat imported (imports less exports and re-exports)
Beef in tins 72 87 229 277
Meat, fresh and frozen 412 898 156 287
Other meat, veal, bacon,
ham and sausage 98 85 423 308 249 (b) Slaughtered for food in local authority slaughter houses
Beef and veal 2,899 3,279 8,767 8,047 6,800
Goats and kids meat 1,119 850 1,405 042 1,077
Mutton and lamb 2,090 2,628 3,079 2,582 2,888
Camel meat 41 52 59 64 900
Pork 46 41 69 49 925
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Total available for
consumption 6,772 7,420 14,187 12,541 12,839
Average available for
consumption per head
per year of the urban Kgs. Kgs.
and aemi-urbeu Kgs. !{gs. Kga.
population 16.! 17.6 28.7 20.5 15.6

Applying the ratios mentioned above, and assuming that all tinned beef and 'other meat' was consumed by the Jewish community, the average consumption by Jews would be approximately 21 kgms. per head per year in the period 1930-31 and about 25 kzms. in the period 1937-38. Assuming that both imported and locally produced meat from the Arab slaughter houses went to the

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