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Smith Exposing for sale on a stall in Bell Street a
quantity of fruit which was unsound and
unfit for human food Fined £i and £1/3/- costs for exposing and 2/- costs for
depositing
Smith Depositing, for the purpose of the preparation
for sale, certain pieces of meat which were
unsound and unfit for human food, at
No. 6, Crawford Terrace Fined £3 and £2/2/-costs
Smith Exposing for sale certain unsound fruit,
to wit, pears, grapes and melons, which
were unfit for human food, at No. 14,
Union Street, Middlesex Hospital Fined £2 and £2/2/-costs
Smith Exposing and depositing for sale, at No. 57,
Bell Street, two pigs and two sets of
organs which were diseased with tuberculosis
and were unfit for human food Fined £5 and £3/3/-costs
Three of the above seizures, it will be noted, refer to meat, and one of these
was of pig carcases and organs diseased with tuberculosis. The seizure in this
instance was made at Christmas time. The animals were proved to be country
fed and slaughtered, and a note of the circumstances of the case was sent to the
Medical Officer of Health of the district whence the carcases had come. As the
fact that pork has been fed and slaughtered in the country is commonly taken as
a guarantee of its excellence, it is worth while entering a word of caution
regarding it, viz.: that very frequently no examination whatever has been made
of the carcase from which it is derived before it leaves the country, and it is just
possible that no examination is made in town at the retail shop, which may be
one of hundreds, and therefore liable to escape inspection. There is no doubt of
the existence of a certain laxity in connection with examinations at country
slaughterhouses, and as attention is continually being called to it, the signs are
hopeful that the future may see some improvement in this respect.
Slaughterhouses.
The following list gives the number and situation of premises used as
slaughterhouses in the Borough, and the conditions under which the licences are
granted.
Premises. Conditions.
75, Abbey Road Nil.
6A, Bolsover Street, rear of Nil.
178, Edgware Road Nil.
4, Henry Street, St. John's Wood Small cattle only.
50, Henry Street, St. John's Wood Small cattle only.
134, High Street, St. John's Wood On the clear and distinct understanding
that the room over the slaughterhouse
is not used as a living room.
31, Little Church Street Small cattle only.
32A, Union Street, Middlesex Nil.
Hospital