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One of the above prosecutions calls for
special remark. Two pieces of beef sent from
Woolwich were seized at the Central Market.
This place being within the Metropolitan
Police area, the usual plan of investigation
through the local police could not be adopted,
and your officers went to Woolwich to serve
the notice of seizure and make enquiries.
The owner of the beef kept a butcher's shop in
a quiet street, and, on the Inspectors calling
there, they saw another badly-diseased carcase
of beef hanging in the shop, and at once
informed the local Sanitary Authority, whose
officers seized the meat. The owner was summoned
at the Justice Room, Guildhall, and sentenced
by Alderman Samuel Green to three
months' hard labour without the option of a fine.
On the next day the defendant was summoned
at Woolwich Police Court, where he could not
appear, being in prison; the case was heard
in his absence, and he was fined 30s.