[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ] page 143

City of London 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 35 years:—

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Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 35 years:—

Quinquennium.	General Supply.			Seizures by Inspectors.			% of Bad Meat.
1874-1878	Tons 178,373	cws.. 10	qrs. 0	Tons 192	cwts. 18	qrs. 2	.08
1879-1883	218,200	12	3	282	11	2	.29
1884-1888	249,580	19	2	248	1	2	.99
1889-1893	304,986	5	1	461	15	1	.51
1894-1898	372,440	12	2	749	3	3	.01
1899-1903	410,456	18	1	1,082	13	2	.263
1904-1908	414,906	11	1	1,584	19	3	.382

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

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

	British.		Foreign Killed.	American.		Australian and New Zealand.
	Country Killed.	Town Killed.	Foreign Killed.	Home Killed.	American Killed.	Australian and New Zealand.
	Per cent.	Per cent.	Per cent.	_ Per cent.	Per cent.	Per cent.
1904	23.2	3.6	15.6	14.0	23.0	20.6
1905	18.2	3.6	12.7	17.8	24.4	23.3
1906	17.2	3.4	11.1	17.3	26.0	25.0
1907	17.4	3.1	13.1	16.1	24.6	25.7
1908	17.3	4.2	14.3	13.4	26.1	24.7

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* Includes " General Foreign Meat and Produce."

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:—

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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:—

	1906.	1907.	1908.
Average daily delivery into the Markets	Tons. 1,375	Tons. 1,358	Tons. 1,335
Minimum delivery on any one day	186	204	192
Maximum delivery on any one day	2,607	2,594	3,235
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one day (21st December, 1896) was -		4,159 tons.

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One ton in every 319 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets,
Smithfield, was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 401 in
1907.

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City of London 1908

Table: Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 35 years:—

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

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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:—

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