Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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Serial No. | Date. | Business. | Where heard. | Before whom. | Offence. | Result. |
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2 | 17/6/35 | Wholesale Butcher & Grazier. | Guildhall | Ald. F.J. C. Pollitzer. | Being the owner of one pig carcase, which was diseased and unfit for human consumption and deposited for sale on the 29 /3 /35, at Smithfield Market. | Fined £15. Costs, £5 5s. 0d. |
4 | 31/12/35 | Butcher | " | Being the owner of three pieces of boned-out beef, which were diseased and unfit for human consumption. | Fined £20. Costs, £10. | |
4 | 31/12/35 | Slaughterman. | " | Being the slaughterman and sender of three pieces of boned-out beef, which were diseased and unfit for human consumption. | Fined £40. | |
5 | 2/1/36 | Master Butcher. | Being the owner and consignor of one pig carcase, which was diseased and unfit for human consumption. | Fined £20. Costs, £5 5s. 0d. |
Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, and Meat delivered to Contractors as unsound, during each Month for the Years 1934 and 1935.
Month. | Meat delivered at the Market, 1934. | Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1934. | Meat delivered at the Market, 1935. | Unsound Meat delivered to Contractors, 1935. | ||||||||
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Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | |
January | 43,434 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 6 | 3 | 44,104 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 0 |
February | 35,871 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 17 | 3 | 37,496 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 14 | 0 |
March | 39,948 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 2 | 37,288 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 10 | 0 |
April | 37,467 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 40,515 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 3 | 3 |
May | 39,714 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 9 | 2 | 41,593 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 11 | 0 |
June | 34,624 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 34,445 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 4 | 0 |
July | 35,349 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 13 | 1 | 38,710 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 4 | 1 |
August | 35,611 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 3 | 1 | 35,532 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 13 | 1 |
September | 35,946 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 2 | 38,160 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 8 | 1 |
October | 43,697 | 0 | 0 | 145 | 10 | 3 | 44,931 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 16 | 3 |
November | 41,866 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 2 | 40,463 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 18 | 3 |
December | 41,218 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 10 | 2 | 43,628 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 16 | 3 |
Totals | 464,745 | 0 | 0 | 934 | 12 | 1 | 476,865 | 0 | 0 | 932 | 1 | 3 |
One ton in every 511 tons of meat paying toll in the Central Markets, Smithfield, was
condemned last year, as compared with one ton in 486 in 1934.
*Table showing the average deliveries at the Central Meat Market, and other details tor successive quinquennial periods during the past 60 years :—
Quinquennium. | Annual Average General Supply. | Seizures by Inspectors. | % of Unsound Meat. | ||||
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Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | Tons. | cwts. | qrs. | ||
1874-1878 | 178,373 | 10 | 0 | 192 | 18 | 2 | .108 |
1879-1883 | 218,200 | 12 | 3 | 282 | 11 | 2 | .129 |
1884-1888 | 249,580 | 19 | 2 | 248 | 1 | 2 | .099 |
1889-1893 | 304,986 | 5 | 1 | 461 | 15 | 1 | .151 |
1894-1898 | 372,440 | 12 | 2 | 749 | 3 | 3 | .201 |
1899-1903 | 410,456 | 18 | 1 | 1,082 | 13 | 2 | .263 |
1904-1908 | 414,906 | 11 | 1 | 1,584 | 19 | 3 | .382 |
1909-1913 | 427,146 | 0 | 0 | 1,520 | 2 | 3 | .356 |
1914-1918 | 324/715 | 0 | 0 | 1,370 | 11 | 9 | .422 |
1919-1923 | 403,364 | 10 | 0 | 1,849 | 19 | 0 | .459 |
1924-1928 | 477,405 | 0 | 0 | 1,210 | 2 | 0 | .253 |
1929-1933 | 464,847 | 0 | 0 | 946 | 6 | 0 | .203 |
1934-1935 | 470,780 | 0 | 0 | 933 | 6 | 0 | .198 |
* I am indebted to the Clerk and Superintendent of the Central Markets for the figures relating to the market
supplies, sources of origin, &c.