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UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year proceedings were taken in the Police Court
(Lainbeth) in relation to the following two seizures of unsound food:—
(1) Charles Miller, 53 East street, for depositing for the purpose of sale
292 tins condensed milk, the said milk being unsound and unfit
for the food of man. Fined £15 and 4s. costs.
(2) Harry Moss, of 52, Aldgate High Street, he being the owner of a
van standing in the roadway outside No. 5, East Street, in which
van were found four hindquarters of Beef, which beef was unsound,
unwholesome and unfit for the food of man. The following is a
report of the hearing of the case, taken from a daily newspaper: —
"Proceeding under one of the provisions of the Public
Health Act, the Southwark Borough Council summoned Harry
Moss, of Aldgate High-street, before Mr. Hopkins, at, Lambeth,
yesterday, to answer the complaint that there were found
deposited, for the purpose of sale, in a van in East-street,
Walworth, four hindquarters of beef which were intended for
food, and which were unsound and unwholesome, and that
he was the person in whose possession the same were found.
"Mr. G. C. Topham supported the proceedings on behalf
of the Council, and Mr. Ricketts defended.
"The case occupied practically the whole of the afternoon's
sitting.
"Mr. Topham stated that on the early morning of the 10th
October last, two of the Council's inspectors were in East Street,
Walworth, when they saw a carrier's van from which meat
was being delivered to the premises of Mr. Nathan, a butcher.
There were 12 hindquarters of beef in the van, six marked with
the kosher mark, and the other six each bearing two cuts
The meat was taken into Mr. Nathan's shop, but that gentleman
said that only the kosher meat was for him, and the six other
quarters were put back into the van. They were examined by
the sanitary inspectors and the Medical Officer, and four of the
quarters were seized as unsound and were afterwards condemned
at this court. The carrier's carman had received instructions
to deliver six kosher hindquarters to Mr. Nathan, and it was a
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