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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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102
MEAT INSPECTION.
A short statistical review of the meat supply
to the City will illustrate the magnitude of the
work and the responsibilities imposed upon
the officials who have the duty of supervising
the food supply in your district.
340,956 tons of meat, &c., were received
during 1894 at the Central Markets, Smithfield,
and included 35,050 tons of “General
Foreign and meat produce,” 71,638 tons
“American killed fresh meat,” and 49,908
tons “Australian and New Zealand killed
fresh meat.”
The average daily delivery into these markets
during the year was 1,114 tons, the minimum
on any one day being 395 tons, and the
maximum 2,245 tons.
It is interesting to note, that, compared with
the previous year (1893), the deliveries of
Australian and New Zealand meat increased
only 3g per cent., while there was an increase
of 26 per cent, in the quantity of American
killed meat.