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the hot weather in the shops, and on the costermongers'
barrows, the "Market Streets" about Seven Dials were
frequently visited by the Sanitary Inspectors, and on the
19th June, a piece of decomposed and stinking meat was
found exposed for sale at a small butcher's shop in Little
Earl Street; the meat was seized by the Inspector, and
condemned by the Magistrate as unfit for human food.
Proceedings were subsequently taken against the owner of
the shop, who was convicted and fined 20 shillings and
costs.
Various parcels of fish, rabbits, and fruit, were brought
to the stone yard and destroyed at their owners' request.
By order of your Board, bills were printed and posted
about the "Market Streets," cautioning persons against
selling diseased or unwholesome food, and the penalty they
were liable to for so doing. The occasional issuing of these
bills no doubt acts beneficially in checking the exposure
and sale, by costermongers and others, of articles unfit for
human food.
Animals so kept as to be a Nuisance.
A number of rabbits were found in a kitchen, causing a
stench injurious to the health of the inmates of the house.
The Sanitary Inspector complained to the owner, who
forthwith removed the nuisance.
Slaughter.houses.
On the 26th October, the Middlesex Magistrates, at their
Petty Sessions, held at the Holborn Town Hall, granted
licenses for slaughter.houses to the following butchers,
who had previously carried out the works ordered by your