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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 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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MEAT SUPPLIES,
The total quantity of meat delivered at the
Corporation Markets, Smithfield, during 1898,
amounted to 110 less than 400,112 tons 9 cwts.
3 qrs. against 393,307 tons 2 cwts. in the
previous year, being an increase of 1.73 percent.
The corresponding figure for 1897 was 3.3
per cent.
The following Table shows the annual deliveries
since I have held office during the past
25 years:—