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The portions affected by parasitic nodules had been removed from the rest of
the carcases, and were exported to this country separate and distinct from the
sound portions.
The Public Health Committee, having considered all the facts, refused to grant
permission to have the diseased meat returned to Australia, as there was not
conclusive evidence that these briskets would not be converted into tinned meat
and then re-exported into England, when the disease could not be detected by
the naked eye.
They were therefore destroyed.
Police Court Proceedings for Selling Unsound Food.
On February 8th, 1911. Mr. Wm. S. Brady, 118, Salmon Lane, was summoned for
selling and exposing for sale 60 rabbits which were unfit for human food. He was
fined £25 and £2 4s. costs or six weeks imprisonment.
On March 30th. Mr. Adam Mahringer, of 337, Commercial Road, was summoned
for having 50 eggs and 1 quart of liquid eggs which were unsound and unwholesome
on his premises in the course of preparation for sale as the food of man. He was
fined £2 and £3 3s. costs.
On May 8th. Mr. Harris Zikrow, of 32, Wolesley Street, was summoned for
exposing for sale a quantity of pears which were unsound and unfit for human food.
He was fined £5 and £1 3s. costs.
On September 8th. Mr. Morris Domb, of 83, Hessell Street, was summoned
for having on his premises for the purpose of preparation for sale 377 eggs which were
unsound and unfit for human food. He was fined £5 5s. and £3 3s. costs.
On Friday, October 27th. Acting on my instructions, Mr. Abson went to a
butcher's shop in Whitechapel High Street about 6.30 a.m. He saw two packages
and one hamper containing meat. One package contained two pigs and the other
one pig. The hamper contained seven pigs. He examined the first three pigs, and
he found that the glands in the throat of one of them were very enlarged and
tuberculous. The lumbar and inguinal glands were also affected with the same
disease. The pig was seized, and after I had examined it, it was taken to the Thames
Police Court, where it was condemned by the Magistrate. The owner, who resided
in Braintree, Essex, was communicated with, and he identified the pig as belonging
to him.
On examining the seven pigs contained in the hamper, the glands on both sides
of the throat of one pig and the glands on one side of the throat of another pig had
been removed. These glands had been removed before sending the pigs to London,