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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

Finsbury 1904

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops

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Date of Trial.Name and Address.Article.Where seized and Name of Inspector.Penalty and Costs inflicted.
Mar. 18Joseph Bowmer, Rochdale, LancashireFour quarters of cow beef, weighing 496 lbs.— diseased. This beef was badly diseased with generalised tuberculosis; many of the diseased parts had been removed, but patches of tubercles were present on the pleura of each fore-quarter, and the whole of the glands were more or less enlarged and tubercular. The beef was also badly bruised and several ribs were broken. No internal organs were sent to market.109, Charterhouse Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)£21 and £21 costs. •
May 11Ralph Lustig, 26 and 67, Chapel Street, FinsburySeventeen pieces of beef, weighing 88 lbs.—unsound. This was Argentine beef, and was in a very advanced stage of decomposition, the meat was in parts green in colour and the whole of it smelt offensively.26 and 67, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)£3 and 2s. costs.
May 11Ralph Lustig, 26 and 67, Chapel Street, FinsbnrvTwelve pieces of beef, weighing 200 lbs —unsound. This was also Argentine beef and in a similar condition to the above.2 6 and 67, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)£3 and 2s. costs.
June 8John Davies, 14, Chapel Street, FinsburyOne carcase and seven pieces of pork, weighing 122 lbs.—diseased. This pork was badly diseased with advanced generalised tuberculosis, the whole of the glands, especially the pharyngeal, were more or less much enlarged and very tuber-cular. Some of these glands were quite obvious without cutting the meat.14, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)£13.