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Unsound Food.
During 1909, the following consignments of unsound food
have been inspected, condemned and destroyed, under the
supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors :—
February 4th.—6 bags of green vegetables.
March 12th.—100 boxes of pears (containing 24 pears
in each box).
March 12th.—9 boxes of pears (containing 50 pears in
each box).
April 14th.—Carcase of a sheep (died in lamb birth*).
July 19th.—2 sacks of pigs' heads (each sack containing
20 heads).
September 20.—17 bags of potatoes (14½ cwt.)
September 22nd.—I trunk of haddocks.
October 3rd.—Winkles (2 gallons).
October 11th.—2 boxes of grapes.
October 22nd.—1 box of mackerel.
October 29th. — 1 box of plaice.
In February, 1909, information was received from the Port
Sanitary Authority that some damaged butter (4 tons) was
to be delivered at the premises of a Lambeth firm. The
butter was found to have been damaged with water and
smoke from burning wood and sulphur, the hold in which
the butter was stored in the vessel having caught fire at sea.
In this way the butter was rendered unfit for human consumption,
and was consequently used for the purpose of
soap-making only.
*The carcase was consigned to a butcher in Lambeth Borough from a
farm at Cotterstock, Oundle. The farmer was cautioned by letter, and he
sent a written apology stating that the carcase had been sent to London in
error. He paid to the Council the costs of removal and destruction.