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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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to felicitate the Corporation upon its relief from
the long-standing reproach of allowing such a
grievous scandal to continue in its midst.
An additional Inspector of Slaughterhouses
and Meat was appointed in May last, and the
staff now consists of seven specially qualified
officers, who are solely engaged in the supervision
of the meat supplies in the City.
FISH SUPPLIES.
179,983 tons of fish, of which 129,469 were
land-borne and 50,514 water-borne, were received
at or near Billingsgate Market during the year.
This was an increase of 15,152 tons over the
average of the previous five years, but was
2,584 tons less than the total for 1898.