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Shoreditch 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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FOOD SEIZED AND CONDEMNED.
Spanish Onions 31 eases
English „ 1 bag (about 100 lbs.)
Scarlet Beans 1 bushel
Cabbage Plants 1 cwt.
Chorrios 22 baskets
Strawberries 22 „
Plums 2 „ (about 401bs.)
Apples 1 „
Skate 2 barrels and 1 box
Cod Roes 1 kit
Oysters About 6OO
Escallops 1 bag
Mackerol 30
Haddocks (smoked) 200
„ (wot.) 1 trunk
Meat Cuttings 22 lbs.
Lamb 2 breasts (about 6lbs.)
Sheep One-third
Mutton 2½ shoulders
Pork 1 leg and 2 hands (about 10lbs.)
Sparc Ribs Pork 2 (about 8lbs.)
Beef 2 pieces (about 16lbs.)
Bacon 8 „ (881bs.)
Rabbits 2
I append the reports of Chief Sanitary Inspector Aloxander on the general work
done by himself and the other Inspectors, under his supervision, in the inspection of
premises by house-to-house visitation and otherwise, the nature of the nuisances
discovered, and the orders made for their removal, and on the Scavenging and
Dusting of the Parish, and the Watering of the Roads.
In the Statistical Tables accompanying this report may bo scon the causes of death
in the Parish, and in the separate districts thereof, and in Table II. the rates are given
in parallel columns for the whole of Registration London, and its groups of Districts,
whereby comparisons may ho made between the rates existing in this Parish and these
in other parts of the Metropolis. Shoreditch forms part of the East Registration
District.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
FRANCIS JOHN ALLAN
Medical Officer of Health.
Shoreditch Town Hall,
OLD Street, E.C.