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City of London 1912

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1912

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Table: *Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 39 years:—

*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 39 years:—

Quinquennium .Annual Average General Supply.Seizures by Inspectors.% of Bad Meat
Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwtsqrs.
1874-1878178,373100192182.108
1879-1883218,200123282112.129
1884-1888249,58019224812.099
1889-1893304,98651461151.151
1894-1898372,44012274933.201
1899-1903410,4561811,082132.263
1904-1908414,9061111,584193.382
Years 1909-1912425,9041001,63311.383

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*I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market
supplies, sources of origin. &c.

Table: The sources of origin of the Central Market Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of total annual deliveries.

The sources of origin of the Central Market Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of total annual deliveries.

British.*Foreign Killed.American.Australian and New Zealand.
Country Killed.Town Killed.Home Killed.American Killed.†
Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.
190817.34.214.313.426.124.7
190917.84.913.610.627.525.3
191016.85.712.67.132.625.2
191117.45.411.26.737.022.3
191220.56.610.42.039.221.3

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* Includes " General Foreign Meat and Produce." †Includes South American imports.

Table: Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market:—

Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market:—

1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.
Tons.Tons.Tons.Tons.Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets1,3351,3681,3711,3901,379
Minimum delivery on any one day192229219171214
Maximum delivery on any one day3,2353,9183,2003,0662,943
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one day (21st December, 1896) was4,159 tons.

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| The minimum deliveries relate to Saturdays when practically no wholesale business at the Market
is carried out.
One ton in every 263 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield,
was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 193 in 1911.