Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899
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Medical Officer's Report.
DECOMPOSED MEAT AND OFFAL SEIZED DURING 1899. | ||
27 quarters of beef. | 3 hampers of bullocks' livers. | |
12 carcases of mutton. | 1 barrel of bullocks' kidneys. | |
119 pieces of beef. | 1 bag of bullocks' heels. | |
54 pieces of mutton. | 6 cases of bullocks' cheeks. | |
1 carcass of veal. | 82 bullocks' tripes. | |
6 quarters of veal. | 18 barrels of bullocks' tripes. | |
2 carcases of pork. | 36 lambs' heads. | |
26 sides of pork. | 400 pigs tops (lungs and hearts). | |
99 pieces of pork. | 89 pigs' plucks. | |
2 barrels of pork. | 27 barrels of pigs' plucks. | |
1 case (1 cwt.) of pork. | 71 barrels of pigs' kidneys. | |
4 sides of bacon. | 2 hampers of pigs' plucks. | |
260 stones of bacon. | 11 baskets of pigs' livers. | |
50 lbs. of French sausages. | 146 baskets of pigs' livers. | |
3 cases of sheep's plucks. | 37 calves' heads. | |
2928 sheeps' plucks. | 84 hampers of mixed offal. | |
1279 sheeps' heads. | 1 calve's pluck. | |
1 crate of sheeps' heads. | 39 cases of rabbits. | |
48 bags of hearts. | 21 rabbits. | |
2 hampers of kidneys. | 3 bags of haddock. | |
508 bullocks' livers. | 1 case (100 tins) of filleted herrings. | |
166 bullocks' lungs. | ||
56 bullocks' tails. | 2 cases of p'aice. | |
1 bullock's pluck. | 2 cases of grapes. | |
40 bullocks' melts. | 17 tins of lobster. | |
42 bullocks' heads. | 16 fowls. | |
13 bullocks' hearts. | 5 pigeons. | |
4 hampers of bullocks' hearts. | 20 guinea fowls. | |
8 hampers of bullocks' kidneys. | 1 turkey. | |
Total weight (meat only) 3101 st. 4 lbs. | ||
Diseased (meat only) | St. | lbs. |
888 | 6 | |
Decomposed (meat only) | 3101 | 4 |
3990 | 2 | |
Grand total, 3990 st. 2 lbs. = 31,922 lbs. |
A large proportion of the above was foreign meat and offal, and was also
diseased.