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On the 20th June, a butcher, of Aylesbury,
Bucks, 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 £50 and £3 3s.
costs, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment.
The defendant went to gaol.
On the 29th June, a farmer, of Kirby, Essex,
was summoned at the Guildhall Justice Room,
for sending the carcases of eight diseased
sheep to the Central Market. The case
was fully investigated, and the dangerous
character of the meat, and its entire unfitness
for human food proved up to the hilt,
but there being, in the opinion of the Magistrate,
an absence of direct instructions on
the part of the defendant to his butcher,
ordering him to send the sheep to market for
sale, the case was dismissed, and both the
farmer and the butcher got off scot free.
With reference to the seizure of two pieces
of diseased mutton in the Central Meat
Market, on the 31st of May last, by Inspector