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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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America, against 91,024 beasts and no sheep
in the previous year.
No live pigs have been received from that
country since 1881.
The Australian dead meat business which was
established in 1881 having proved so successful,
the stock dealers in that colony opened up a new
industry in 1894, viz.: a live cattle trade. The
results were promising, and live cattle were
successfully conveyed from the Antipodes and
landed in the Thames in “good marketable
condition.”
By prohibition of the Board of Agriculture,
no animals were landed in the Country from
any Continental Port during the year.
FISH.
128,361 tons of fish were brought to
Billingsgate Market during the year, as
against 130,317 tons in 1893, and 130,803
tons in 1892.