Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops page 93

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.
June 13	John Mike Hemeter, 40, Chalk Pit Hill, Chatham, Kent	A barrel of pieces of horseflesh, weighing 80 lbs.— diseased. These were small pieces of horse-flesh averaging in weight about 4 ozs. The meat had a soapy feel and a sickly smell. It was very lean and coarse in texture. What little fat there was present was very yellow and oily. The meat was very dark in colour and badly congested. There were several glands present and these were very much congested.	95, C h a r t e r-house Street, Finsbury (In spector Billing)	£50 and £5 5s. costs. The defendant in this case was arrested at Chatham on a warrant on June 11, and was brought before the magistrate on June 13, and was remanded in custody (in default of finding bail in two sureties of £100 each, and himself in £200) till June 15, when he was convicted. A summons could not be served on the defendant, although one was issued on Nov. 25, 1903, as he had left this country and did not return till June 11.
July 22	Joseph Wood, 30, Chapel Street, Finsbury %	Forty baskets of strawberries, weighing about 400 lbs.—unsound. These strawberries were very soft, many were mouldy and all were more or less sour.	At a stall in Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	£10 and 2s. costs.
Aug. 3	Albert John Clark, 82, Chapel Street, Finsbury	Thirty-six pieces of beef and 40 pieces of lamb, weighing 116 lbs.—unsound. The whole of this meat was foreign and had been frozen. It was all in an advanced stage of decomposition, the meat was in parts green in colour, and the whole of it smelt offensively.	82, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	£10 and 2s. costs.
Aug. 12	Ebenezer Thomas Cowell, 42, Chapel Street, Finsbury	Sixty sheep's tongues—unsound. The whole of these tongues were in an advanced stage of decomposition, very soft, in parts green in colour, and smelt offensively.	42, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing)	£5 and 2s. costs.