Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896
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2. Rent of Inspector's offices at Smithfield,
with gas, water, &c.
3. Printed registers, stationery and postage
(heavy items).
4. Cost of cartage for removal of condemned
meat from the markets to the contractor's
factory at Bow in Commissioners'
vehicles, with repairs to the latter.
5. Hire of extra vans in times of pressure.
6. Heavy market porterage and petty
bursements.
7. Cost of chemicals for disinfecting tanks
in the two condemned meat sheds.
Early in the year the necessity for more
Inspectors of Slaughter-houses and Meat was
forced upon my attention, owing to the constantly
increasing supplies to the Central
Markets and the utter impossibility of properly
supervising the same with the then existing