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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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CONDEMNED MEAT, 1894.
The total quantity of Meat, &c., delivered at
the Central Meat Markets, Smithfield, for the
year, was:—340,956 tons.
430 tons of unsound meat were seized in
the City Markets, including a very small
proportion from Aldgate and Leadenhall,
during the year, under the following conditions,
viz:
38 tons Diseased.
360 ,, Putrid.
Meat from animals that had
29 „
died from accident.
3 „ Offal and Fish.
430