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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.†
Percent.
Percent.
Percent.
Percent.
Percent.
Percent.
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
1911
17.4
5.4
11.2
6.7
37.0
22.3
* Includes “General Foreign Meat and Produce.” † Includes South American imports.
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:—
1907.
1908.
1909.
1910.
1911.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets
1,358
1,335
1,368
1,371
1,390
‡Minimum delivery on any one day
204
192
229
219
171
Maximum delivery on any one day
2,594
3,235
3,918
3,200
3,066
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one
day (21st December, 1896) was
4,159 tons.
‡ The minimum deliveries relate to Saturdays when practically no wholesale business at the Market
is carried out.
One ton in every 193 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield,
was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 256 in 1910.
UNSOUND MEAT, 1911.
The meat, &c., seized by your Inspectors as unfit for food is classified as under:—
1911.
Diseased.
Unsound.
Dnwholesome.
Poultry.
Offal.
Fish.
Total.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
tons.
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
First Quarter
29
10
1
23
532
17
2
27
21
14
0
21
22
7
2
5
14
4
1
9
1
11
1
0
622
5
2
1
Second „
16
14
0
4
520
0
0
22
15
13
2
18
13
11
0
1
27
8
0
5
0
0
2
4
593
7
1
26
Third „
7
7
0
15
406
11
0
17
14
4
2
17
48
6
3
18
69
7
3
6
0
0
6
10
546
19
0
27
Fourth „
31
14
0
10
317
13
3
13
19
0
0
27
42
16
1
20
65
11
2
5
1
0
3
13
477
17
0
4
Total
85
5
2
24
1,777
2
3
23
70
12
3
27
127
1
3
16
176
11
2
25
2
14
0
27
2,239
9
1
2
The above figures include 34,541 separate seizures.