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Quantity of Unsound Meat Condemned in the City
Markets during each of the last Thirteen years.
Years.
Amount Seizad
and Condemned.
WHY SEIZED AND CONDEMNED.
Dead.
Diseased.
Putrid.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
1861
141,458
33,619
91,098
16,741
1862
110,046
13,944
78,679
17,423
1863
210,505
20,324
114,120
76,061
1864
229,180
43,497
96,779
88,904
1865
247,827
27,393
124,614
95,820
1866
340,820
21,618
171,051
148,151
1867
287,974
33,387
129,312
125,275
1868
236,953
27,170
101,866
107,917
1869
191,283
25,462
103,132
62,689
1870
126,109
14,169
57,532
54,408
1871
132,388
14,318
77,083
40,987
1872
195,522
19,009
74,463
102,050
1873
178,626
24,538
99,589
54,499
Annual
202,207
24,496
101,486
76,225
Average
The largest quantity of meat seized in any year was
340,820 lbs., or rather more than 152 tons, and the
smallest amount was 110,046 lbs., or barely 50 tons—
the average for the whole time being 202,207 lbs., or
rather more than 90 tons ; and of this, 101,486 lbs.
were diseased, 76,225 lbs. putrid, and 24,496 lbs.
from animals that had died from accident or disease.
At one time it was the practice to dispose of the
bad meat to a contractor, who bore the expense of
removing it from the markets, but as there was suspicion
that the meat was not always destroyed, but