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City of London 1920

Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London for the year 1920

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Table: UNSOUND MEAT.— The meat, &c., seized during the year by your Inspectors as unfit for food is classified as under:—

UNSOUND MEAT.— The meat, &c., seized during the year by your Inspectors as unfit for food is classified as under:—

1920.Diseased.Unsound.Unwholesome.Poultry.Offal.Fish.Total.
tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.
First Quarter35131151701821451702563140913391231402456634
Second „24811127018110259101431532211716027113215831007
Third „161232730023278024411831915043291401652614111
Fourth „2317153447019101001690101367163270621653619112
Total100120210867014957017339100746971231262272,1031026

Table: CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD. *Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 47 years:—

CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD. *Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 47 years:—

Quinquennium.Annual Average General Supply.Seizures by Inspectors.% of Unsound Meat.
Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
1874-1878178,373100192182.108
1879-1883218,200123282112.129
1884-1888249,58019224812.099
1889-1893304,98651461151.151
1894-1898372,44012274933.201
1899-1903410,4561811,082132.263
1904-1908414,9061111,584193.382
1909-1913427,146001,52023.356
1914-1918324,715001,370112.422
1919-1920330,483002,080153.629

Table: *The sources of origin of the Central Markets Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of the total annual deliveries.

*The sources of origin of the Central Markets Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of the total annual deliveries.

British.† Foreign Killed.American.Australian and New Zealand.
Country Killed.Town Killed.Home Killed.American Killed.‡
Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.
191629.415.91.9-30.322.5
191735.716.91.8-33.112.5
191831.811.10.6-43.912.6
191924.811.40.5-41.921.4
192017.66.72.6-39.034.1
† Includes "General Foreign Meat and Produce." ‡Includes South American imports.

Table: *Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market:—

*Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market:—

1916.1917.1918.1919.1920.
Tons.Tons.Tons.Tons.Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets1,0779226889641,192
‡Minimum delivery on any one day13913561107101
Maximum delivery on any one day2,7802,3971,6682,1013,103
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one day (22nd December, 1913) was4,398 tons.

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‡ The minimum deliveries relate to Saturdays when practically no wholesale business at the Market
is carried out.
One ton in every 174 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield,
was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 142 in 1919.
* I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market
supplies, sources of origin, &c.