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Corporation of London.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
TUBERCULOUS MEAT.
The Corporation of London has for many years instituted legal
proceedings (resulting in many instances in the infliction of
heavy fines or terms of imprisonment) against farmers, butchers,
and other persons for sending diseased or unwholesome meat into
the City Markets, or for exposing the same for sale. It would
appear that in some cases such offence may have been due to gross
carelessness, or even ignorance of the symptoms of disease in the
living animal, or of the appearance of unsound carcasses after
slaughter.
The following indications of Tuberculosis, both in the carcass
and in the living animal, drawn up by Dr. Collingridge, the
Medical Officer of Health for the City, and Mr. King, Veterinary
Inspector to the Corporation, are therefore published as guidance
for the use of persons dealing in meat, and all salesmen and
dealers are earnestly desired to bring them to the notice of those
specially interested.
This appeal is made as, from experience, it has been made
manifest that salesmen within the City are anxious and willing to
do anything in their power, in the interests alike of the public
health and legitimate trading, to prevent unsound meat being
offered for sale.
Further copies of this Circular will be supplied on application.
JAMES BELL,
Public Health Department, Town Clerk.
Guildhall, London, E.C.,
March, 1903.