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Out of 21,778 bovine animals slaughtered at
Aldgate, 657 were affected with Tuberculosis in
varying degrees.
Unsound Food.—The total quantity of unsound
food destroyed during the year was 1,386 tons.
FISH SUPPLIES.
115,169 tons of fish, of which 111,516 tons were
land-borne, and 3,623 tons water-borne, were delivered
at or near Billingsgate Market during the year.
This is a decrease of 2,722 tons of the land
deliveries, and 906 tons in the deliveries by water,
Of this, 1,750 tons were condemned as unfit for food.
17 cwts. 1 qr. 4 lbs. were seized as unsound at or
near the London Central Markets.
DAIRIES. COWSHEDS AN1) MILKSHOPS OHDEKS.
580 Dairymen and Purveyors of Milk were on the
register at the end of the year.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
458 formal samples and 534 informal samples were
purchased under these Acts.
Of the formal samples 51 or 11.1 per cent, were
found to be adulterated, and of the informal 69 out
of 534.