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Fulham, the meat being unfit for human food and probably
derived from animals slaughtered whilst in a dying condition.
It was taken before the Magistrate on the following morning
and he gave an order to destroy the same. The Sanitary Committee
directed proceedings to be taken, the Magistrate at the
hearing of the case inflicted a nominal penalty of £5 and 6/costs.
G. C., of 26, Atherton Street, was detected selling cheese
unfit for human consumption, the Magistrate condemned the
cheese and ordered its destruction. The Sanitary Committee
directed proceedings to be taken. Defendant was ordered to
pay the costs of the summons, viz., 2/- only, the Magistrate
observing there was a degree of decomposition allowable in cheese.
In this case the cheese was as rotten as it possibly could be and
could be smelt some 200 yards away. The price it was
being sold at was 2d. and 2½d. per lb. He afterwards brought
a large quantity to the office to be condemned, similar to that
seized and acknowledged that it had been frequently flooded
with Thames water in the cellars of an wholesale house in the
city, which accounted for its highly decomposed condition. It
was all conveyed to the Destructor and there cremated.
The following articles of food were condemned and
destroyed as being unfit for human consumption by decomposition
at various times during the year:—
Haddocks 4 cwts.
Kippers 8 boxes.
Herrings 12 cwts.
Mackerel 10 „
Ling 4 „
Mixed Fish 1 ½ „
Sprats 3 bushels.
Cockles 19 lbs.
Mussels 2½ bushels.
Rabbits 58.
Cheese 5½ cwts.
Tomatoes 32 boxes.
Cherries 5½ cwts.