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some wasting disease and was probably killed in a dying condition.
This opinion was supported by the Medical Officer
of Health and the Council's Veterinary Surgeon, who
examined the pork on the following morning. Legal proceedings
were subsequently taken against the person who sold the
meat, and he was convicted by the Magistrates and fined
twenty shillings and costs.
Unsound Food.
Appended is a list of the unsound food destroyed during
the year:—
1 Carcase of beef (tuberculosis).
1 Carcase of pork „
6 Pieces of beef.
10lbs. Pork.
5lbs. Mutton.
3 Ox livers and 1 sheep's liver.
1 Pair of ox lungs and 2 pairs of sheep's lungs.
1 Trunk cod.
1 Box hake.
1 Box plaice.
2 Boxes skate.
10 Kippers.
8 Haddocks.
6lbs. Apples.
1 Barrel "William" pears.