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City of London 1924

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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.

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*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.		† Foreign Killed.	American.		Australian and New Zealand.
	Country Killed.	Town Killed.		American.
				Home Killed.	American Killed.t
				Per cent.	Per cent.		Per cent.	Per cent.	Per cent.	Per cent.
	1920	17.6	6.7	2.6	.	39.0	341
1921	14.1	4.9	6.7	2.1	41.3	30.9
1922	14.7	4.3	9.7	1.7	42.0	27.6
1923	14.7	51	9.6	0.6	47.7	22.3
1924	16.6	5.2	10.6	0.3	48.4	18.9
† Includes " General Foreign Meat and Produce."‡ Includes South American Imports.

Table: * The following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market are of interest.

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* The following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market are of interest.

	1920.	1921.	1922.	1923.	1924.
		Tons.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.
Average daily delivery into the Markets ....	1,192	1,389	1,513	1,532	1,560
J Minimum delivery on any one day	101	101	142	169	181
Maximum delivery on any one day....	3,103	3,537	3,659	3,411	4,775
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.

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One ton in every 384 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smith.
field, was condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 336 in 1923.

Table: Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1923 and 1924.

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Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1923 and 1924.

Month.	Meat delivered at the Market, 1923.			Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1923.			Meat delivered at the Market, 1924.			Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1924.
	Tons	cwts.	qrs.	Tons	cwts.	qrs.	Tons	cwts.	qrs.	Tons	cwts.	qrs.
January	42,013	0	0	105	11	1	43,343	0	0	91	19	0
February	36,806	0	0	91	11	3	38,573	0	0	65	7	0
March	39,106	0	0	75	6	2	40,153	0	0	91	0	3
April	41,131	0	0	88	19	1	39,324	0	0	116	4	2
May	41,147	0	0	132	4	0	41,625	0	0	98	8	0
June	37,835	0	0	117	13	3	37,489	0	0	129	19	2
July	30,245	0	0	126	16	0	41,707	0	0	133	18	3
August	38,940	0	0	209	19	1	35,397	0	0	100	4	3
September	35,860	0	0	91	4	1	39,505	0	0	105	17	0
October	42,992	0	0	196	15	1	44,253	0	0	125	19	1
November	42,893	0	0	91	19	2	33,143	0	0	84	12	2
December	41,430	0	0	76	3	0	43,008	0	0	100	16	1
Totals	470,398	0	0	] ,404	3	3	477,520	0	0	1,244	7	1
* i am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market supplies, sources of origin,&c.

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FISH SUPPLIES.
211,722 tons of fish, of which 190,088 were land.borne and 21,634 water.borne,
were received at or near Billingsgate Market during the year.
This was a decrease of 21,648 tons in the land deliveries, and a decrease of
1,684 tons in the deliveries by water.

Table: MONTHLY FISH RETURNS.* Table showing Weight of Fish Delivered, Fish seized as Unsound, and Percentage of Fish Condemned to that Delivered, at or near Billingsgate Market, and on board boats lying off that place, during each month of the year 1924.

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MONTHLY FISH RETURNS.

* Table showing Weight of Fish Delivered, Fish seized as Unsound, and Percentage of Fish Condemned to that Delivered, at or near Billingsgate Market, and on board boats lying off that place, during each month of the year 1924.

Month.	Weight of Fish Delivered.				Total.		Weight of Fish Condemned.			Ratio of Fish Condemned to that Delivered.
Month.	By Land.		Bv Water.		Total.		Weight of Fish Condemned.			Ratio of Fish Condemned to that Delivered.
	Tons.	cwts.	Tons.	cwts.	Tons.	cwts.	Tons.	cwts.	qrs.		Per Cent.
January	16,916	4	1,854	0	18,770	4	69	13	0	1 ton in 269 493	tons or 0.371
February	16,673	14	1,782	8	18,456	2	78	2	2	1 „ 236.238	„ 0 423
March	15,688	2	2,232	10	17,920	12	74	16	0	1 „ 239.58	0.417
April	14,705	3	1,602	0	16,307	3	60	16	0	1 „ 268.209	0.372
May	17,514	17	1,133	0	18,647	17	224	0	3	1 „ 83 235	1.201
June	14,941	12	1,275	15	16,217	7	161	15	2	1 ,, 100.246	0.997
July	16,347	16	1,602	10	17,950	6	169	10	0	1 ,, 105.901	0.944
August	15,450	18	1,836	5	17,287	3	144	11	2	1 „ 119.572	,, 0.836
September	14,679	18	2,150	0	16,829	18	262	16	1	1 „ 64.038	1.562
October	16,282	9	2,250	0	18,532	9	204	14	3	1 ,, 90.518	1.104
November	15,486	9	1,858	5	17,354	14	66	12	3	1 „ 260.434	„ 0.383
December	15,390	12	2,057	0	17,447	12	99	18	2	1 „ 174.606	0 573
Totals	190,087	14	21,633	13	211,721	7	1,617	7	2	1 „ 130.933	0.763
* Compiled from the Monthly Returns from the Fishmongers' Company.

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City of London 1924

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.

Table: * The following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market are of interest.

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Table: Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1923 and 1924.

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Table: MONTHLY FISH RETURNS.* Table showing Weight of Fish Delivered, Fish seized as Unsound, and Percentage of Fish Condemned to that Delivered, at or near Billingsgate Market, and on board boats lying off that place, during each month of the year 1924.