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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 1899
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899
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passing through the Central Markets being 2¾
times as much as it was in 1871, whilst the
population is about 1⅓ times as great; the second
is, that as the sources of supply become more
distant, the risk of the meat arriving at market
in an unsatisfactory condition is greater, and,
therefore, the proportion of bad to good meat
will rise.
The Inspectors seized 1,172 tons 5 cwts. 2 qrs. as unfit for the food of man, classified as under :—
| Tons | Per cent. |
|---|---|
| Putrid meat 1,034½ | 88.2 |
| Diseased meat 95 | 8.1 |
| Unsound from accident or causes other than above 42½ | 3.7 |
| 1,172 | 100.0 |
The principles which govern the seizure and
destruction of meat actually diseased from
constitutional, parasitical, specific, endemic, or
sporadic causes are immutable, being founded
upon fixed laws of pathology as old as