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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 1896

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896

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54
assume that the percentage of increase would
be as large as at the Central Markets.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES
The whole of the Slaughter Houses within
the City are situated in Aldgate, High Street ;
they are 14 in number. The extent of Slaughtering
becomes less and less each succeeding
year, and there are several in which none
is done.
So far as the City is concerned, I hope this
diminution will continue, although I admit it
furnishes evidence of the decadence of the
home grown cattle trade, and the corresponding
dependence of the public upon meat of foreign
and colonial growth.
PROSECUTIONS AGAINST
SENDERS OF BAD MEAT.
In nine cases prosecutions were ordered by
the Commissioners, in six of which £219 9s.
were received for fines and costs, and in three