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the diseased cattle ought to he removed through 

 these populous districts in closed and not in open 

 carts. The conversation then closed, and at an 

 unusually late hour the court adjourned. 



DISEASED MEAT. At the Thames Police Court 

 yesterday Henry Frost, an old man, was charged with 

 having allowed to be deposited on the premises occu- 

 pied by him in the rear of the house, No. 13, Sidney- 

 street, Stepney, four quarters of beef prepared for 

 sale and intended for the food of man, but which was 

 unfit for human food. Frost carried on the business 

 of a greengrocer. He asserted that he let the place 

 to other men, who were the actual offenders. It was 

 intimated that the vestry had no disposition to press 

 for a heavy penalty. Mr. Paget fined the prisoner 40s. 

 At Clerkenwell, Mr. Tegg, inspector at the Metro- 

 politan Cattle Market for the City authorities applied 

 to Mr. D'Eyncourt for an order to destroy a quantity 

 of diseased meat which he purposed seizing. Mr. 

 D'Eyncourt said the meat must be actually seized 

 and condemned upon evidence before he could make 

 the order. In the matter of the seizure of 32 quarters 

 of beef, weighing about 3000 Ibs., which was found on 

 the premises of a knacker in Pleasant-grove, Belle-isle, 

 Mr. D'Eyncourt dismissed an application made 

 against the Defendant under the Nuisances Removal 

 Act. The defence set up was that the meat was 

 recognised as bad and diseased by the killer as soon 

 as the animals were slaughtered. 



