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Amongst these articles were four pieces of meat weighing about
1 cwt. 1 qr. seized on the premises of a sausage maker in Hackney.
The circumstances which led to their seizure were these. I received
information from the Chief Sanitary Inspector of Bethnal Green,
that suspicious consignments of meat were being conveyed into the
Hackney District from the premises of a wholesale dealer in cats'
meat, situated in Mile End. I immediately had the place watched,
with the result, that a consignment of meat was traced from the
cats'-meat dealer, to the sausage maker above-mentioned. On
examining the consignment of meat, I found four pieces which, in
my opinion, were so unsound as to be unfit for human food. These
I had conveyed to the North London Police Court, where Mr. Bros,
the presiding Magistrate, examined them and ordered them to be
condemned as unfit for human food.
Legal proceedings were subsequently instituted by the Vestry
against the sausage maker for having in his possession unsound
meat intended for the preparation of food, and against the Mile End
wholesalfe dealer in cat' meat for selling the same to the sausage
maker, with the result that each defendant was fined £50, or two
months' imprisonment in default.
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses.—The Public Health
Committee inspected these (26 Cow-Houses and 36 Slaughter-Houses)
in the month of September, and found them, on the whole, in a very
satisfactory condition.