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Cold Stokes.—A slight decline in the amount of
unsound food destroyed from the Cold Stores was
reported.
Embargoes were placed on most of the carcasses
that were admitted into the Cold Stores, and the
necessary sorting entailed a considerable amount of
additional work to this department.
The actual amount of food condemned in the Cold
Stores was 235½ tons.
Aldgate Market and Slaughterhouses.—Only
15,482 animals were slaughtered during the year as
compared with 53,514 of the previous year. Bulls
and heifers showed a slight increase, and there was a
considerable decrease in the number of cows, calves,
oxen and sheep.
Out of 10,184 bovine animals slaughtered at
Aldgate, 109 were affected with Tuberculosis in
varying degree.
Unsound Food.—The total amount of unsound
food delivered at the Markets' Slaughterhouses and
in the Cold Stores amounted to 1,710 tons as
compared with 1,385½ tons in the previous year.
FISH SUPPLIES.
121,424 tons of fish, of which 121,271 tons were
land-borne, and 153 tons water-borne, were delivered
at or near Billingsgate Market during the year.