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City of London 1922

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

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41
CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD.

Table: *Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 49 years:—

*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 49 years:—

Quinquennium.Annual Average General Supply.Seizures by-Inspectors% of Unsound Meat
Tons.cwtsqrs.Tons.cwts.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
1914-1918324,715001,370112.422
1919-1922386,6051001,96173.508

Table: *The sources of origin of the Central Markets Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of the total annual deliveries.

*The sources of origin of the Central Markets Supplies during the past five years are here expressed in terms per cent. of the total annual deliveries.

British.American.American Killed.‡Australian and New Zealand
Country Killed.Town Killed.† Foreign Killed.Home Killed.
Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.
191831.81l.l0.6-43.912.6
191924.811.40.5-41.921.4
192017.66.72.6-39.034.1
192114.14.96.72.141.330.9
192214.74.39.71.742.027.6

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† Includes "General Foreign Meat and Produce." ‡ Includes South American Imports.
*Some idea of the amount of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughter-houses
and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent
of the Market—
1918. 1919. 1920. 1921. 1922.
Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets 688 964 1,192 1,389 1,513
J Minimum delivery on any one day 61 107 101 101 142
Maximum delivery on any one day 1,668 2,101 3,103 3,537 3,659
The heaviest weight previously recorded on
any one.day (22nd December, 1913) was.— 4,398 tons.
‡ The minimum deliveries relate to Saturdays when practically no wholesale business at the Market is carried out.
One ton in every 320 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smith.
field, was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 169 in 1921.

Table: Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1921 and 1922.

Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1921 and 1922.

Month.Meat delivered at the Market, 1921.Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1921.Meat delivered at the Market, 1922.Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1922.
Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwtsqrs.Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
January33,604001222042,201001882l
February32,07100891l35,55100115190
March34,037001397042,44800143160
April34,0020011117135,19800104173
May33,970001868337,8950018511
June33,935002337038,35100104180
July30,8650023815037,644007180
August34,329002245037,228009482
September37,0090019519036,4310012123
October39,2790025514141,19100117143
November39,9860024118340,65500119152
December39,295001999238,2810078110
Totals422,382002,23843463,074001,445143

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* I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market
supplies, sources of origin, &c.