Report on the public health of 1903 page 70

Finsbury 1903

Report on the public health of 1903

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Date of Trial.	Name and Address.	Article.	Where seized and Name of Inspector.	Penalty and Costs inflicted.
Apr. 8	Charles Fairey, 20, Tollington Park, Holloway	Two sides of beef, one head and tongue, one pair of lungs, one heart, and one tripe and tail—diseased. This was a case of generalised tuberculosis. The carcase was extremely emaciated, and there were tubercles on the pleura. The glands were extremely enlarged, and many of them tubercular. The pharyngeal glands, which were attached to the head, were about the size of a goose egg, and were purulent. The tongue and both lungs were markedly tubercular	101, Charterhouse Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	£20 and 2s. costs.
May 22	Thomas E.Cue, 276, Central Meat Market. London	Thirty pigs' livers—unsound. These were Danish livers, and had been pickled in some preservative. The whole of the livers were extremely soft, disorganised and putrid. These livers were examined on the defendant's behalf by Mr. Allen, M.R.C.V.S.	At a stall in Exmouth Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	May 26th. Dismissed on a point of law as to whether the master was 1 able, under sub-section 3 of section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, for the acts of his servant, i.e., selling unsound meat for the food of man. A case was stated for consideration by the King's Bench Division of the High Courts, but was subsequently abandoned as the defendant had in the meantime become an inmate of a lunatic asylum. His friends guaranteed the costs incurred by the Council.
May 22	Thomas E.Cue, 276, Central Meat Market, London	Twenty-four pigs' livers-unsound. The remarks in the first case apply also to this case	At a stall in Exmouth Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	Dismissed for the reasons stated above.