London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 12 | Ebenezer Thomas Cowell, 42, Chapel Street, Finsbury | Sixty sheeps' heads and 106 half heads—unsound. The whole of these heads were in an advanced stage of decomposition, they were in parts green in colour and the whole smelt offensively. | 42, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing | £5 and 2s. costs. |
| Aug. 30 | Giovanni Parmigiani (Senior), 33, Warner Street, Finsbury | Fifty pieces of beef, weighing 65 lbs.—unsound. This beef was in an advanced stage of decomposition, it was in parts green in colour, and the whole of it smelt offensively. At the time of seizure this meat was being prepared for Salami sausage making. | 39, Warner Street, Finsbury (Inspector Longden | £10 and £2 2s. costs. |
| Oct. 4 | Thomas Blake Frost (trading as Brewster & Frost), Central Meat Market, London, E.C. | Three hundred and seventy-two carcases of mutton, weighing 21,297 lbs.— unsound. These were carcases of New Zealand sheep, and the whole of them were more or less spotted with black, white and yellowish moulds both inside and outside the carcases. Several carcases were almost black with moulds. The whole of the mutton had a nasty mouldy smell of decomposition. | The London and India Docks Company's Cold Air Stores, St. John Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing) | £25 and £21 costs. |
| Nov. 8 | Albert Jackson, (trading as Jackson Bros.), 28, Chapel Street, Finsbury c | Twenty - seven rabbits, weighing 65 lbs.—unsound. The whole of these rabbits were in an advanced stage of decomposition. All were discoloured, some being in parts quite green, and all smelt offensively. | 28, Chapel Street, Finsbury (Inspector Billing) | £15 and £5 costs. |