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City of London 1929

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Table: Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1928 and 1929.

Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month of the Years 1928 and 1929.

Month.Meat delivered at the Market, 1928.Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1928.Meat delivered at the Market, 1929.Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1929.
Tons.cwts.qrs.Tons.cwts.qrs.Tons.c.wts.qrs.Tons.cwts.qrs.
January42,53500689044,17900165172
February39,25600987237,9430076173
March41,20700540137,4980094122
April38,68600573339,6780085141
May38,5030010010339,6070065123
June35,2000015114233,8590058113
July34,7360010011038,1890010092
August37,457001080135,668008170
September35,413007113036,28200104113
October43,0460013915342,8840015103
November41,9440014211338,8040079113
December42,174001600141,2480084191
Totals470,157001,252173465,849001,14962

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One ton in every 405 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield, was
condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 375 in 1928.

Table: CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD.*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 56 years :—

CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD.

*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details for successive quinquennial periods during the past 56 years :—

Quinquennium.Annual Average General Supply.Seizures by Inspectors% of Unsound Meat.
1874-1878Tons. 178,373cwts. 10qrs. 0Tons. 192cwts. 18qrs. 2.108
1879-1883218,200123282112.129
1884-1888249,58019224812.099
1889-1893304,98651461151.151
1894-1898372,44012074933.201
1899-1903410,4561811,082132.263
1904-1908414,9061111,584193.382
1909-1913427,146001,52023.356
1914-1918324,715001,370112.422
1919-1923403,3641001,849190.459
1924-1928477,405001,21020.253
1929465,849001,14962.246
* 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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INSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN MEAT INSPECTION.
The Corporation is recognised to have valuable material and educational resources
at its disposal at Smithfield Market, access to which is of great importance to students
desiring to qualify for any of the public appointments requiring a knowledge of meat and
its several affections.
Facilities have already been granted to teaching institutions, and their number has
now been increased by adding to the list the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
in whose course of instruction to medical practitioners qualifying for the Diploma in Public
Health would exist a gap were this practical experience not available to their students.
FISH SUPPLIES.
239,332 tons of fish, of which 216,936 were land-borne and 22,396 water-borne, were
received at or near Billingsgate Market during the year.
This was an increase of 2,510 tons in the land deliveries, and a decrease of 2,202
tons in the deliveries by water.