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Names of Inspectors.
Number of
houses inspected.
Number
requiring
amendment.
Number
of orders
issued.
Number of
notices to
lodging
houses.
William Clark
3,513
265
346
750
Job Payne
5,170
480
921
687
Thomas Saltmarsh
5,105
364
527
750
Thomas Shurmur
5,017
427
594
750
Total
18,805
1,536
2,388
2,937
The Inspectors of the Markets and Slaughter-houses
have seized and condemned 126,109 lbs., or rather
more than 56 tons of meat as unfit for human food;
and of this quantity, 54,408 lbs. were putrid, 57,532
lbs. were diseased, and 14,169 lbs. were from animals
that had died from accident or disease. It consisted
of 575 sheep and lambs, 242 pigs, 114 calves, 590
quarters of beef, 2,885 joints of meat, and manyhundred
heads, plucks, hearts, tongues, kidneys, and
livers; besides 600 tins of preserved beef, 1 case of
rabbits, 13 deer, 12 quarters of venison, 175 hares,
372 rabbits, 532 head of game and poultry, 2 turtles,
and 15½ chests of unsound tea, all of which were
destroyed.
In Billingsgate Market the fish meters appointed
by the Fishmongers' Company have seized and condemned
on account of putridity 808,243 fish, chiefly
haddock, plaice, smelts, whiting, herrings, soles,
dabs, and thornbacks; besides 8,186 gallons of