Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899 page 14

Holborn 1899

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899

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DECOMPOSED MEAT AND OFFAL SEIZED DURING 1899.
27 quarters of beef.	3 hampers of bullocks' livers.
12 carcases of mutton.	1 barrel of bullocks' kidneys.
119 pieces of beef.	1 bag of bullocks' heels.
54 pieces of mutton.	6 cases of bullocks' cheeks.
1 carcass of veal.	82 bullocks' tripes.
6 quarters of veal.	18 barrels of bullocks' tripes.
2 carcases of pork.	36 lambs' heads.
26 sides of pork.	400 pigs tops (lungs and hearts).
99 pieces of pork.	89 pigs' plucks.
2 barrels of pork.	27 barrels of pigs' plucks.
1 case (1 cwt.) of pork.	71 barrels of pigs' kidneys.
4 sides of bacon.	2 hampers of pigs' plucks.
260 stones of bacon.	11 baskets of pigs' livers.
50 lbs. of French sausages.	146 baskets of pigs' livers.
3 cases of sheep's plucks.	37 calves' heads.
2928 sheeps' plucks.	84 hampers of mixed offal.
1279 sheeps' heads.	1 calve's pluck.
1 crate of sheeps' heads.	39 cases of rabbits.
48 bags of hearts.	21 rabbits.
2 hampers of kidneys.	3 bags of haddock.
508 bullocks' livers.	1 case (100 tins) of filleted herrings.
166 bullocks' lungs.
56 bullocks' tails.	2 cases of p'aice.
1 bullock's pluck.	2 cases of grapes.
40 bullocks' melts.	17 tins of lobster.
42 bullocks' heads.	16 fowls.
13 bullocks' hearts.	5 pigeons.
4 hampers of bullocks' hearts.	20 guinea fowls.
8 hampers of bullocks' kidneys.	1 turkey.
Total weight (meat only) 3101 st. 4 lbs.
Diseased (meat only)	St.	lbs.
	888	6
Decomposed (meat only)	3101	4
	3990	2
Grand total, 3990 st. 2 lbs. = 31,922 lbs.

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A large proportion of the above was foreign meat and offal, and was also
diseased.