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The ratio of meat seized as unfit for food to
that delivered at the Markets during the five
years 1894-5-6-7-8 was as under:—
1894 1 in793 tons
1895 1 „579 „
1896 1 „416 „
1897 1 „429 „
18981 „452 „
In the four weeks ending the 28th July last
your Officers seized 64 tons 3 cwts. 3 qrs. 27 lbs.,
and from that date to 25th August 100 tons
17 cwts. 1 qr. 14 lbs. of meat as unfit for human
food.
For the same periods in 1897 the figures were
107 tons 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 18 lbs. and 115 tons 2
cwts. 3 qrs. 27 lbs. respectively. This decrease
is accounted for by the fact : (1) In July, 1897.
we had two very large consignments of frozen
beef which reached this country in a putrid
condition. (2) In August, 1897, the same
thing occurred, when nearly the whole of
a consignment of refrigerated beef was
seized. (3) During the early months of this
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