Report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1911 page 118

Finsbury 1911

Report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1911

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Table: UNSOUND FOOD PROSECUTIONS —1911.

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UNSOUND FOOD PROSECUTIONS —1911.

Date of Trial.	Name and Address.	Article.	Where seized and Name of Inspector.	Penalty and Costs Inflicted.
1911. June 1st.	Albert Hieleman, 70, Askew Road, Shepherd's Bush, Lcndon. W.	A quantity of saveloys, minced veal, prepared sausage material, scrap meat, 5 loins of veal, 7 pairs of calves' lungs and a piece of pork, weighing in all 203 lbs The saveloys were mouldy. The loins of veal and calves' lungs were slimy and discoloured. The pork was slimy and mouldy. All tbe details smelt rery offensively. This meat was actually being made into sausages at the time of the Inspector's visit.	No. 5, Cyru? Street. London, E.C. Inspector Billing.	Fined £20 and £5 5s. costs.
October 19th,	Joseph Blake, 51, Victoria Dock Road, London, E.	214 pieces of bacon and 118 pigs' feet, weighing about 762 lbs. The pieces of bacon were discoloured, some pieces were slimy and mouldy. The pigs' feet were very slimy. All the st ized material smelt vtry c ffensively.	No. 164, Whitecross Street, London, E.C. Inspector Billing.	Fined £100 and £5 5s. costs. This was a difficult and intricate case. The defendant asserted that the business and the bacon belonged to another. An unstamped agreement was produced to confirm this statement. A summons was issued against this alleged owner, but was withdrawn on the conviction of the original defendant.
October 29th.	Thomas Rimmer, 2, White Lion Build-ings, White Lion Street, N. and Thomas Holt, 57, White Lion Street, London, N.	One barrel and two half-barrels of sprats. The sprats were very soft, the eyes were sunken, the gills dull in colour, and the whole of the fish smelt offensively.	On a coster's donkey-barrow in Hermes Street, London, N. Inspector Davis.	Fined 20s. each and 2s, costs, or 7 days' imprisonment Defendants went to prison.
December 29th.	Giovanni Clerico, 35, Lloyd's Row, London, E C.	6½ lbs. of liquid eggs. The liquid eggs were discoloured and smelt offensively.	No. 35, Lloyd's Row, London, E.C. Inspector Rees.	Fined £5 and 12s. 6d. costs, or one months' imprisonment. Defendant went to prison for 3 days. The fine was then paid and the defendant liberated.