Report on the public health of 1903 page 71

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.
June 17	Walter Bryant, Keston, near Bromley,Kent	Four quarters of beef, weighing 568 lbs.—diseased. The animal (of which this meat formed the carcase) had died from parturient fever after calving. This was conclusively proved by the evidence given at the hearing of the case. The meat was badly congested and full of blood. All the glands were enlarged and badly congested. It had been very skilfully dressed by the defendant, who is a horseslaughterer.	93,Charterhouse Street, Finsbury(Inspector Billing)	£25.
June 23	Joseph Tilbury, 28, Exmouth Street, Finsbury	One hundred and thirtysix pieces of beef skirt, weighing 176 lbs.—unsound. This meat was chilled American and was obviously bad, being much discoloured, very soft, slimy, and smelling offensively.	28, Exmouth Street, Finsbury(Inspector Billing)	£5 and 2s. costs. This case had been adjourned from June 16th, 1903.
June 23	John and William Davies, 14, Chapel Street, Finsbury	Thirty-seven rabbits and 2 pigs' heads, weighing 65 lbs. —unsound. These rabbits were from Ostend and all were obviously bad, being in parts green in colour and smelling very offensively. The pigs' heads were in a similar condition.	14,ChapelStreet, Finsbury (InspectorBilling)	John Davies, £5 and 2s. costs. Summons against William Davies was withdrawn.
June 23	Edwin Thain, 141, Wood Street, Walthamstow	Eleven pigs' plucks, 120 pigs'kidneys and 2 pieces of beef kidney, weighing 86 lbs. This meat was American and had been frozen. The whole of it was in an advanced stage of decomposition, being in parts green in colour and the whole of it smelt offensively.	On a stall in Chapel Street, Finsbury (InspectorBilling)	£3 and 2s. costs.