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City of London 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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Sanitary Authority (without inspection) for removal to cold stores within the City of
London, the Metropolitan Boroughs of Bermondsey and Finsbury, to be examined
there under the supervision of the Medical Officers of Health of those districts.
Of the tongues examined by your Officers, in no instance were 2 per cent. of them
found to be diseased.
MUTTON AND LAMB.
The total importations of frozen Mutton and Lamb into the United Kingdom during 1916 amounted to 8,472,136 carcases.
| From Australia | 671,888 carcases. |
| „ New Zealand | 5,407,222 „ |
| ,, South America | 2,311,451 |
| ,, United States | 81,575 |
| Total | 8,472,136 carcases. |
This was a decrease of 3,718,625 carcases, or 30.5 per cent. on the total for 1915.
The quantity seized by your Officers and destroyed as unfit for human food was
10 tons 12 cwts. 1 qr. 10 lbs., and comprised 493 carcases, 224 pieces and sundry
trimmings.
The largest individual seizure was 171 carcases, weighing 2 tons 14 cwts., on a
vessel which arrived in the port in a damaged condition.
PORK.
The pork seized and destroyed was 520 carcases, 105 heads and 2 pieces.
The seizures were made for the following reasons :—
| From. | Tuberculosis. | Unsound. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carcases. | Heads. | Carcases. | Pieces. | |
| Australia | 14 | |||
| New Zealand | ||||
| Canada | ||||
| United States | 62 | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| South Africa | 10 | |||
| China | 184 | 61 | 58 | 1 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1 | ||
| Totals | 439 | 105 | 81 | 2 |
With regard to the heads destroyed, these were removed from carcases found to be
affected with tuberculosis.