London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1894

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894

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and fined £50 and £3 costs, or two months'
imprisonment.
On the 13th March, a horse-slaughterer of
Haxey, Linconshire, was summoned at the
Guildhall Justice Room, for sending the
carcases of three diseased pigs to the
Central Meat Market, and was convicted
and sentenced to two months imprisonment,
with hard labour, without the option of a
fine.
On the 4th April, a cattle dealer and
slaughterer of Orford Street, Chelsea, was
summoned at the Guildhall Justice Room,
for sending two sides of diseased cow-beef,
and the head and offal, etc., of the same
animal, to the Central Meat Market, and
was convicted and fined £80, or two months'
imprisonment.
On the 5th April, a farmer, auctioneer, and
butcher, of Bognor, was summoned at the
Guildhall Justice Room, for sending four
quarters of diseased cow-beef to the Central
Meat Market, and was convicted and fined
£25, and £5 5s. costs.