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Police Court Proceedings for Selling Unsound Food.
On March 12th, 1912. Mr. William Olley, 200, Bow Common Lane, was summoned
for exposing for sale on a stall in Burdett Road, 14 lbs. of bacon which was
unfit for human food. He was fined £10 or six weeks in default.
Proceedings were taken against Mr. David Weir, of the East London Produce
Company, Ltd., for selling corned beef for human food which was unsound and
unwholesome.
On December 21st, 1911, I received a telephonic communication from the
superintendent of a wharf in our Borough that Mr. Weir had presented a delivery
order for 32 cases of corned beef which had been rejected or thrown out as unfit
for human food. Each case contained 12 tins, weighing 6 lbs. each. I informed
Mr. Weir that the contents of the tins could only be sold for poultry and pig feeding,
and they were to be removed for that purpose under my supervision. On December
23rd, Mr. Weir undertook to give us the necessary information as to the disposal of
the goods for poultry feeding.
During the first week in January Mr. Weir called at 43, White Horse Street,
and said that he proposed sending four cases to Mr. Walter Wells, East Dereham.
Mr. Abson told him not to send them until he had a reply from the Sanitary
Authority for East Dereham. A satisfactory reply having been received on January
15th, the goods were sent on January 17th, and the sanitary officials of East
Dereham were informed of the fact.
This is the only consignment that Mr. Weir informed us of goods that were
disposed of for poultry feeding.
Mr. Weir is trading as the East London Produce Company (Limited). The
tins of coined beef were purchased from a firm of corned beef dealers, who had
rejected them because they were blown or pierced.
On March 13th, I received a communication from the Chief Sanitary Inspector
for Glasgow that 59 cases of corned beef had been sent to the East London Produce
Company, to be used by that firm as food for poultry. They were sent on the
distinct understanding that they should on no account be used for any other
purpose. Mr. Weir, on being communicated with, said that he had received 59
cases from Glasgow and had made an examination of them. Some of them, he
said, were only collapsed, the others were pierced. He pointed out the parcel
which he considered was good, and which consisted of six cases and eight tins, or
80 tins altogether.
Mr. Weir had sold six cases to a provision merchant in Globe Road, at 24s. a
case, with a 60 days guarantee; two cases to a tradesman in Canning Town, at 25s.
a case, with a 30 days guarantee; and 11 cases to a tradesman in Bow Common