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hardly be got to use anything in a proper manner
which is provided for their cleanliness and comfort;
and it is high time that some means should be
used to improve their habits in this respect, for
they add considerably to the difficulties of enforcing
sanitary measures, and give a plausible excuse to
the passiveness of landlords.
The last point to which I have to refer is that
the markets and slaughter-houses have been duly
inspected during the year, and the officers have
condemned 340,820 lbs., or rather more than 152
tons of meat as unfit for human food. This is
nearly twice as much as the average proportion for
the last five years. 171,051 lbs. of it were
diseased, 148,151 lbs. were putrid, and 21,618 lbs.
were from animals that had died from accident or
disease. It consisted of 1,044 sheep and lambs,
629 calves, 2,081 quarters of meat, and 6,826
joints of meat. Besides which, there were condemned
in the City markets, chiefly on account of
putridity, 1,126 head of game and poultry, 8
quarters of venison, and many tons of fish and
shell fish.
In the course of the year 21 persons, mostly
jobbing butchers, have been convicted of sending
diseased meat to the City markets for sale as human