Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910 page 97

Finsbury 1910

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910

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Table: UNSOUND FOOD PROSECUTIONS-1910.

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UNSOUND FOOD PROSECUTIONS-1910.

Date of Trial.	Name and Address.	Article.	Where seized and Name of Inspector.	Penalty and Costs Inflicted.
1910. February 17th.	Arthur Cart, 40, Turner Road, Leicester.	Four sides of stirk veal weighing 526 lbs. This veal was diseased with generalized tuberculosis. The pleura and peritoneum had been partly stripped from each side, and fat had been smeared over the stripped parts, thus concealing, to a large extent, the evidence of stripping. There were many tubercles on the marginal portions of the pleura and peritoneum. The whole of the glands were enlarged, and some were also tuberculous. There was a large abscess, about the size of a cocoanut on one forequarter.	Nos. 101 & 103, Charterhouse Street. London, E.C. Inspector Billing.	The first hearing of this case was on November 16th, 1909. It was adjourned from time to time for the convenience of the defendant and his counsel (George Elliot, K.C.) The prosecution had considerable trouble in bringing this case home to the defendant. The meat was consigned to London in the name of T. Jennings, but no such person could be found. The defendant sought to prove that T. Jennings was really a man named Chas. Morris, who it was alleged could not be found. Defendant was ultimately convicted, and fined £100 and £25 costs.
June 7th.	George Parkinson, 88, City Road, London, E.C.	Twenty-six pairs of kippers, eight bloaters, six haddocks, and twelve beefsteaks. The whole of the kippers, bloaters and haddocks, were soft, slimy, dull in colour, and smelled offensively. The steaks were dark in color, and slimy on one side, and the whole of them smelled offensively.	No. 88, City Road, London, E.C. Inspector Billing.	Fined £5 and £4 4s. 0d. costs.
September 20th.	Joseph Mansfield, 34, Hockerill Street, Bishops Stortford, Herts.	Two top pieces and rumps of beef, weighing 133 lbs. This beef was affected with generalized tuberculosis. It was very emaciated. The small portions of the flanks had been bared of peritonium. The iliac and supra-mammary glands were tuberculous. It was ascertained (and admitted by defendant) that the other portions of this carcase had been boned out, and sent to a wholesale sausage manufacturer in the East End of London. It was also found that the meat was received and converted into sausages, and presumably passed into circulation for human food.	No. III, Charterhouse Street, London, E.C. Inspector Billing	Fined £15 and £5 5s. 0d. costs, or two months' imprisonment. Defendant went to prison in default of paying the fine.