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fish shops, of ice cream shops, and generally of all places used for
the preparation of food for human consumption.
The three street markets are kept under close supervision and
are continuously and specially inspected throughout the year on
every Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The latter duty
is done by every inspector in turn.
Each inspector takes samples under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act in his district. These purchases are nearly always
made by deputy.
Meat and Food Inspection.—The Borough Council have
appointed Mr. Billing as a special meat inspector to inspect
systematically butchers' shops, food stuffs, shops for food preparation
and cold stores throughout the whole district.
In addition he pays special attention to the meat deliveries in
the wholesale market in Charterhouse Street,, St. John Street, and
Cowcross Street, all adjacent to Smithfield Market.
Each district inspector holds a certificate of competency in meat
inspection.
The attached table is a summary of the diseased and unsound
meat and offal confiscated during the year ending 31st December,
1912.
All the unsound meat is removed under agreement by Messrs.
C. & H. Webb, bone and tallow melters, 155, Bow Road,
London, E. Messrs. Webb have their factory in Bow Common
Lane, and pay the Borough Council one penny per market stone
of eight pounds for all the meat removed.
There was one case of some interest. Information was received
from the police that a cow had died in a Finsbury shed. The
premises were visited and the carcase was found to be that of
an aged cow, well nourished, well bled, roughly dressed and
dirty. The lungs and many of the lymphatic glands were tuberculous.
The cow had been unwell for two days, and was thought
to be choked. A probang was used and the cow seemed to
improve. Later it got restless and was killed "to save its life."
The carcase and offal were removed to the destructor and burnt.