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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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The percentages of meat seized under the various headings of the above Table during 1915 and for the preceding five years, classed as diseased, unsound and unwholesome, were as follows:—
| 1910 | 7.1 | 84.2 | 8.7 |
| 1911 | 3.8 | 93.1 | 3.1 |
| 1912 | 12.5 | 79.2 | 8.3 |
| 1913 | 13.4 | 77.0 | 9.6 |
| 1914 | 10.0 | 80.0 | 10.0 |
| Average for 5 years | 9.4 | 82.6 | 8.0 |
| 1915 | 11.0 | 84.0 | 5.0 |
| * Includes poultry, offal and fish. | |||
CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD.
Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1914 and 1915.
| Month. | Meat delivered at the Market, 1914. | Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1914. | Meat delivered at the Market, 1915. | Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1915. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tons | cwts. | qrs. | Tons | cwts. | qrs. | Tons | cwts. | qrs. | Tons | cwts. | qrs. | |
| January | 34,722 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 17 | 2 | ||||||
| February | 31,030 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 7 | 2 | ||||||
| March | 37,733 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
| April | 32,859 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| May | 29,406 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| June | 27,630 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| July | 29,597 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
| August | 26,159 | 0 | 0 | 246 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| September | 29,884 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 19 | 3 | ||||||
| October | 31,128 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| November | 31,399 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| December | 31,783 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 19 | 3 | ||||||
| Totals | 373,330 | 0 | 0 | 1,005 | 1 | 1 | ||||||