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On Monday, the day following, I met Mr. Harrison and
he denied having made such a statement, or having made any
expression of approval or permission for the carcase to be used
for human food, adding that when Mrs. Galinsky told him that
it had been dead only ten minutes he did not believe her statement,
basing his opinion on the facts that the whole of the
blood was coagulated and cold. On the same day, Monday,
October 17th, 1 interviewed Richard King at his shop in Burdett
Road, and asked him whether anything was said to him (when
he was called in by Galinsky to deal with the carcase) about
any Inspector having seen the carcase (before him) and saying
that it would be fit for food. His answer was, "No." I then
asked him very plainly if, when he arrived at Galinsky's did
"Mr. or Mrs. Galinsky say anything to you about Mr.
Harrison, the L.C.G. Inspector, having been there and saying
that the carcase was fit for food." His reply was, "Not a word
was said to me about any Inspector having been there."
The action taken by the Inspector of Nuisances for West Ham is
given in the following statement:—
In consequence of information received from Meat Inspector
Herbert Abson, of Stepney, I visited, in his company,
the slaughter-house in Chadwin Road, occupied by Mr. Richard
King, of 97, Burdett Road, at 3.30 on Saturday afternoon last.
There I found the carcase of a cow, with skin, head,
udders, runners, and liver removed, but lying, in slaughterhouse
opened and divided in two parts just below the
diaphragm.
The carcase was thin and watery and badly infected with
tubercle.
I found Albert Knightsbridge, 11, Egham Road, employed
by Mr. King (who had accompanied Mr. Abson to my house)
on the premises.
Mr. King informed me that he got the cow from Galinsky's,
cowkeeper, 64, Pelham Street, Whitechapel, where he had been
called in during the morning on account of the cow choking
itself with a large piece of turnip. He informed me that he
bled the carcase, and promised Galinsky that he would do what
he could for him.
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