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the like reason they seized 9,425 gallons of shrimps,
882 bushels of sprats, oysters, periwinkles, whelks,
mussels, and cockles, 4,278 lbs. of eels, rather more
than 8 cwt. of salmon, and 716 lbs. of whitebait,
lampreys, capelings, prawns, &c., all of which was
destroyed. It is proper to mention that the whole
of this, as well as the fish seized in Columbia Market,
was brought to London by rail.
Lastly, I have to report that there were 15 prosecutions
and convictions during the year for sending
diseased meat to the City Markets for sale as food.
The penalties ranged from 5 to 20 pounds, and in
several cases there was imprisonment for a period
varying from one to two months. The particulars
relating to this are shown in the twelfth table of the
Appendix.
RETROSPECT OF SANITARY WORK IN THE CITY.
And now, in concluding my Report, I am desirous
of drawing attention to the progress of sanitary
work in the City during the time I have had the
honour of discharging the duties of Medical Officer of
Health. It is scarcely necessary to say that those
duties have largely increased during the last nineteen
years ; and this has come about not merely from
an expansion of the ordinary routine work at that
time in hand, but from the imposition of new sanitary
obligations by successive legislative enactments.
The work of house inspection, for example, has