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game and poultry consisted of 394 fowls, 326
pigeons, 329 rabbits, 247 ducks, 121 water fowl,
24 geese, 3 turkeys, 50 hares, 54 quarters and
haunches of venison, and 84 head of game, besides
24 lbs. of sausages, and 10 hams. About threefourths
of all the meat was seized in Newgate
Market; about one-fourth of it, and nearly all the
game and poultry were seized in Leadenhall, and
the rest in Aldgate and elsewhere. The causes of
the seizure are thus tabulated:—90,354 lbs. of the
meat were diseased; 16,666 lbs. and all the game
and poultry were putrid; and 35,938 lbs. were
from animals that had died from accident or
disease: chiefly from disease. All of the meat was
at once sprinkled with the creosote of coal tar, so
as to render it unfit for food, and to check
putrefaction, and was then sent to the boilers.
I refrain from again opening the discussion of the
injurious effect of such meat on the health of those
who partake of it, for the whole subject has been
very recently under your consideration, and
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HY. LETHEBY.
41, Finsbury Square,
April 18th, 1862.