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a person in Newgate-market, with instructions that it 

 was to be dehvered to our order ; accordingly a mes- 

 senger was despatched to bring it in a cart, if necessary, 

 to tlie College. In due time he returned, not, however, 

 with a living sheep, but with a carcass, which had been 

 properly dressed by a butcher, and which, notwith- 

 standing the care taken to set it off to the best advan- 

 tage, gave full evidence of the malady. 



By the middle of October, this practice of getting 

 rid of infected animals had so much increased, that the 

 city authorities resolved on the adoption of measures 

 calculated to prevent such unwholesome food being 

 sold. The following report of the proceedings at 

 Guildhall police-office, extracted ft-om the Morning 

 Chronicle, will best shew the notice that was taken of 

 the matter : — 



" Guildhall. — When Mr. Alderman Musgrove took his seat on 

 the bench this morning, Oct. 14th, he inquired if White, the sergeant 

 of Smithfield-market, was in the court. 



" Roe, the officer, said he was not. 



" Mr. Alderman Musgrove : Because I have something to say to 

 him in reference to the diseased sheep. It appears, that since I 

 gave instructions to prohibit them from coming into the market, those 

 sheep are now sent into the country, where they are slaughtered, and 

 then brought into Newgate and Leadenhall-markets as dead sheep. 

 If that be the case, it requires the vigilance of the officers to prevent 

 any unwholesome food from being brought into the markets. When 

 we are doing all we can to prevent diseased sheep from being sold 

 alive in the market, we must not be defeated by the introduction of 

 the same sheep dead. Has White any superintendence of the dead 

 meat that is brought into the market ? — The Clerk : No, sir. 



" Mr. Alderman Musgrove : There are, no doubt, persons in au- 

 thority whofee business it is to look after the dead-meat markets, and 

 to take care that none of an unwholesome character is permitted to be 

 sold to the public. 



"The Clerk : Yes, sir, the superintendents of the markets. 



