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Eggs.—48 cases, weighing 12 cwts. 0 qrs. 14 lbs.
Egg Yolk and Albumen.—22 casks, weighing 4 tons 2 cwts. 2 qrs. 8 lbs.
Drugs.—Weighing 2 qrs.
Sundries.—48 cases, 36 casks, 15 tins, 185 bags, weighing 43 tons 12 cwts.
3 qrs. 3 lbs.
During the year applications were received from Importers to be allowed to
remove various foodstuffs from the District of the Port of London without examination
by your officers, on the understanding that the goods would be examined and dealt
with under the supervision of the Medical Officer of Health of the district to which the
goods were removed.
The permission asked for was given in respect of the following foodstuffs:—
For removal to the City of London:—
569 pig carcases.
1,206 cases dates.
7,560 bags ox-tongues.
For removal to the Borough of Bermondsey:—
598 cases tinned pears.
1,458 „ ox-tongues.
4,450 „ condensed milk.
25 barrels pig-tongues.
435 cases eggs.
97 cwts. 2 qrs. 10 lbs. and 416 bags wheat
For removal to the Borough of Finsbury:—
7,960 bags and 1,375 cases ox-tongues.
For removal to the Borough of Holborn:—
. 300 boxes prunes.
For removal to the Borough of Southwark:—
22 cases ox-tongues.
10,178 boxes butter.
For removal to the Borough of Hackney:—
1,822 cases tinned meats.
For removal to the Borough of Poplar:—
.1,152 bags flour.
For removal to the Borough of Islington:—
185 cases tinned cocoa and milk.
1,235 „ „ cherries.
67 ,, „ apples.
On the 23rd September a vessel arrived from New York having on board
25 barrels of pig-tongues in pickle. On examination some of the barrels were found
to be " blown " and the contents unfit for human consumption.
The goods were placed under detention and a communication sent to the
consignees with a view to the goods being sorted before removal from the dock, and
an inspection was made by one of your Food Inspectors in company with a representative
of the consignees.
An application was made by the consignees to be allowed to remove the whole
of the goods to their own warehouse within the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey,
and on receipt of an intimation from the Medical Officer of Health for that district
that he was agreeable to the suggested arrangement, the application was sanctioned.
This is an illustration of a type of work which is done in the Port which would
not usually appear in the Reports. The disclosure of the state of the tongues is,
however, the work of a Port Sanitary Inspector, and, of course, in this, as in other
similar instances, the nature of the consignment is explained to the Medical Officer of
Health of the district who consents to receive it.
In this case the consignees were anxious to obtain the casks, which would have
been a matter of difficulty to both the Port Sanitary Authority and the traders, were
disposal of the contents contemplated in the Port.