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Thames Police Court, was informed that there was a 

 large quantity of meat in a van in the police-yard 

 adjoining, which had been seized that day by Mr. J. 

 Stevens, the sanitary inspector of Mile-end Old Town, 

 and which was described as unfit for human food. 

 The inspector stated, that in consequence of having 

 been informed that there was a quantity of diseased 

 meat at the shop of Mr. Frost, butcher, Sydney- 

 street, Mile-end Old Town, he went there that morn- 

 ing, and found four quarters of beef (two fore and 

 two hind quarters) which were from a diseased beast. 

 He made a seizure of them, and heard that the animal 

 had been sent by a person of the name of Stephens, a 

 cowkeeper in business on Bow-common. The meat 

 was in a very nasty state, and totally unfit for human 

 food. (Mr. Paget went into the police-yard to ex- 

 amine the meat, which was in a very shocking state.) 

 Dr. Freeman, Medical Officer of Health of the Hamlet 

 of Mile-end Old Town, stated that his attention was 

 called to the state of the meat by the sanitary in- 

 spector. He examined it, and gave his opinion that 

 it should be destroyed, as it was not only in a dis- 

 eased condition, but he believed that it had died from 

 some disease. Mr. Paget: Can you state the nature 

 of the disease which caused its death ? Witness : I 

 cannot. Most likely it was the prevailing epidemic ; 

 and if it were eaten it would be very injurious. Mr. 

 Paget, after hearing the evidence, ordered that the 

 meat should be immediately destroyed, when the in- 

 spector took the van with its contents to a knacker's 

 yard to see the order carried into effect. 



