View report page

15
111,961 lbs., or nearly 50 tons of meat, and 6,844
head of game and poultry as unfit for human food.
It consisted of 542 sheep and lambs, 34 calves,
152 pigs, 735 quarters of beef, and 766 joints of
meat. 57,544 lbs. were diseased, 13,579 lbs. were
putrid, and 9,513 lbs. were from animals that had
died from accident or disease. All of it was at
once treated with the creosote of coal tar, which
prevents its use as food, and it was then sent to
the boilers.
In addition to the preceding, the Fish-meters of
the Fishmongers' Company have seized at Billingsgate,
and in the boats lying off the market, 725,266
fish, 5,773 gallons of shrimps, 1,390 lbs. of eels,
1,131 bushels of sprats and smelts, and 238 bushels
of shell-fish. All these were seized on account of
putridity, and were destroyed.
There have been ten persons convicted during
the year for unlawfully exposing unwholesome
meat for sale. They are as follows:—
George Bruce, Slaughterman, of Fox and
Knott Yard, Snow Hill, who was fined forty
shillings.
Stephen Clarke, Meat Salesman, of Aldgate
High Street, who was fined ten shillings and
costs.