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*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other
details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 35 years:—
Quinquennium.
Annual Average General
Supply.
Seizures
by Inspectors.
°/o of Bad Meat.
Tons
cwts.
qrs.
Tons
cwts.
qrs.
1874-1878
178,373
10
0
192
18
2
.108
1879-1883
218,200
12
3
282
11
2
.129
1884-1888
249,580
19
2
248
1
2
.099
1889-1893
304,986
5
1
461
15
1
.151
1894-1898
372,440
12
2
749
3
3
.201
1899-1903
410,456
18
1
1,082
13
2
.263
1904-1908
414,906
11
1
1,584
19
3
.382
Years 1909-1910
419,805
7
1
1,571
6
2
.374
The sources of origin of the Central Market Supplies during the past five
years are here expressed in terms per cent. of total annual deliveries.
British.
†Foreign
Killed.
American.
Australian
and
New Zealand.
Country
Killed.
Town
Killed.
Home
Killed.
American
Killed.
Per cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
1906
17.2
3.4
1l.l
17.3
26.0
25.0
1907
17.4
3.1
13.1
16.1
24.6
25.7
1908
17.3
4.2
14.3
13.4
26.1
24.7
1909
17.8
4.9
13.6
10.6
27.5
25.3
1910
16.8
5.7
12.6
7.1
32.6
25.2
† Includes "General Foreign Meat and Produce."
Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses
and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the
Superintendent of the Market:—
1906.
1907.
1908.
1909.
1910.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets
1,375
1,358
1,335
1,368
1,371
Minimum delivery on any one day
186
204
192
229
219
Maximum delivery on any one day
2,607
2,594
3,235
3,918
3,200
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one
day (21st December, 1896) was
4,159 tons.
One ton in every 256 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets,
Smithfield, was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 278 in
1909.
* I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the
market supplies, sources of origin, &c.