Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 201
During the year the Inspectors inspected the carcases of 341
cattle, 2,425 sheep, 237 pigs, and 12 calves in slaughter-houses
and butchers' shops, and reported that, with the exception of one
pair of lungs, these were all sound when exposed for sale.
The following list shows the number of slaughter-houses
licensed by the London County Council in October :—
Clapham—
Masters, Albert, 63, Clapham Park Road, Clapham.
(Condition—Small cattle only.)
Yarworth, William, 140, Clapham Park Road, Clapham.
(Condition—The licence is granted on condition that
the slaughtering be limited to animals the meat from
which is to be sold by retail in the shop attached to
the premises.)
Woodman, George, 140, Larkhall Lane, Clapham.
Fisher, Charles Edward, 272, Wandsworth Road, Clapham
Stone, Henry Walter, 697, Wandsworth Road, Clapham.
Putney—
Lindsey, John, Montserrat Road, Putney.
(Condition- This licence is granted on the undertaking
of the licensee to drive cattle on the premises only
between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., and to limit
the slaughtering to the requirements of the retail trade
of his own shop.)
Streatham—
Cooke, James Robert, trading as Slater & Cooke, 45, Balham
High Road.
Covell, Herbert Alfred, 107, High Road, Streatham.
Wotton, Henry, & Dean, Isaac, 165, High Road, Streatham
(rear of).