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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 1895
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895
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CONDEMNED MEAT, 1895.
The total quantity of Meat, &c., delivered
at the Central Meat Markets, Smithfield, for
the year, was 347,283 tons.
599 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.:
50 tons - Diseased.
515 „ - Putrid.
Meat from animals that had
32 „ died from accident.
2 „ - Offal and Fish.
599