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City of London 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: *Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 40 years:—

*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 40 years:—

Quinquennium.Annual Average General Supply.Seizures by Inspectors.% of Bad Meat.
Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
1874-1878178,373100192182.108
1879-1883218,200123282112.129
1884-1888249,58019224812.099
1889-1893304,98651461151.151
1894-1898372,44012274933.201
1899-1903410,4561811,082132.263
1904-1908414,9061111,584193.382
1909-1913427,146001,52023.356

Table: *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.

*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.
190917.84.913.610.627.525.3
191016.85.712.67.132.625.2
191117.45.411.26.737.022.3
191220.56.610.42.039.221.3
191316.76.211.61.140.523.9
† Includes " General Foreign Meat and Produce." ‡ Includes 8outh American imports.

Table: *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:—

*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:—

1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.
Average daily delivery into the MarketsTons. 1,368Tons. 1,371Tons. 1,390Tons. 1,379Tons. 1,408
‡Minimum delivery on any one day229219171214199
Maximum delivery on any one day3,9183,2003,0662,9434,398
The heaviest weight previously recorded on any one day (21st December, 1903) was4,209 tons.
The minimum deliveries relate to Saturdays when practically no wholesale business at the Market is carried out.

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One ton in every 408 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield,
was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 263 in 1912.
* I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market
supplies, sources of origin, &c.