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UNSOUND AND UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
The Inspectors of Meat and of Markets have
seized and condemned 178,626 lbs., or nearly 80
tons, of meat as unfit for human food. Most of
this was obtained at the New Meat Market, and
it consisted of 99,589 lbs. of diseased meat,
54,499 lbs. of putrid, and 24,538 lbs. from animals
that had died from accident or disease. The particulars
relating to these matters are shown in
the tenth table of the Appendix, and you will
observe that the seizures comprised 812 sheep and
lambs, 168 calves, 327 pigs, 856 quarters of beef.
2,035 joints of meat, besides 2,022 plucks, 159 kidneys,
303 livers, 39 hearts and tongues, 130 hams, many
hundred pounds of bacon, 30 lbs. of sausages, and a
quantity of game and poultry, including 3 deer, 18
quarters and 2 haunches of venison, 17 hares, 382
rabbits, 649 head of game and poultry, and 8 goats.
There were also condemned in the public streets 316
putrid cocoa nuts and 4 baskets of cherries; and in
the bonded warehouses 896 boxes, 600 barrels, 30
hogsheads, 40 bags, and 69 cart-loads of figs, as well
as 22 barrels and a great many boxes of currants, all
of which were in a decomposed condition.
At Billingsgate Market, the Fish Meters of the
Fishmongers' Company condemned during the year
considerably more than a million fish (weighing
nearly 400 tons) on account of putridity; and for