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meat, and 19,009 lbs. of meat from animals that had
died from accident or disease. The returns embrace 913
sheep and lambs, 108 calves, 380 pigs, 736 quarters
of beef, 2,760 joints of meat, besides 3,149 plucks,
12 baskets of kidneys and melts, 1,572 kidneys,
51 hams, 190 sides and pieces of bacon, 4 barrels of
pork, 17 pigs' chaps, 35 tongues, 35 ox-tails, 2 goats,
12 fawns, 100 quarters and pieces of venison, 142
hares, 5 boxes and cases of rabbits, 644 rabbits,
2,146 head of game and poultry, 1 box of plovers'
eggs, 2 hampers of eggs, 200 eggs, 29 cheeses, 1 cask
of turtle, 1 barrel and 1 pad of fish, 1 basket of plaice,
1 barrel of cod-roes, 27 mats of dates, 6 boxes of
grapes, 2 boxes of pears, 2,500 oranges, and 106
cocoa-nuts.
At Billingsgate and Columbia Markets the Fishmeters
of the Fishmongers' Company seized and
condemned about 287 tons of fish during the year.
It consisted of about 232,945 herrings, 171,826
plaice, 167,749 haddocks, 142,270 whitings, 129,050
smelts, 66,660 dabs, 2,900 gurnets, 8,586 thornbacks,
3,457 codfish, 9,105 soles, 19,300 of various descriptions
of fish, 7,907 lobsters and crabs, 205 bushels of
sprats, 21 bushels of oysters, 235 bushels of periwinkles,
338 bushels of whelks, 216 bushels of
mussels, 60 bushels of cockles, 9,603 gallons of
shrimps, and 8,879 lbs. of salmon and eels.
Three persons have been convicted during the year