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UNSOUND FOOD.
In order to protect the public from the purchasing of food unfit
for consumption, the following circular giving advice on the subject,
was posted up in the various market places and business thoroughfares
in the parish.
Mestry, St. Mary. Newington.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UNSOUND FOOD.
It is very important that persons purchasing food, especially
during the summer months, should carefully inspect the article so
as to see that it is not in any way tainted or unsound.
Food when in a state, more or less, of putrefaction or rottenness,
is highly dangerous to health, and very often is distinctly poisonous.
Diarrhoea and severe prostration usually follow the eating of
decomposed meat or fruit. Cheap food is at times excellent in
quality, but again it is often inferior and even bad. Purchasers
therefore of cheap food must either exercise great care, or be well
acquainted with marketing, otherwise they cannot escape being
frequently imposed upon. Marketing should be done as far as
possible during daylight, so that a fair examination of what is
purchased can be made. Rotten food is nearly always sold either late
at night, or amidst a bustling crowd of people when the purchaser
has no means of forming an opinion of the actual quality of the
article. If unsound food is purchased towards midnight and only