BALE OF DISEASED MEAT. 
549 
“The markets and slaughter-houses have also been duly 
inspected, and the officers have seized 26,013 lb., or nearly 26 
tons of meat, and 690 head of game and poultry, as unfit for 
human food. 
“it consisted of 154 sheep, 15 calves, 21 pigs, 190 quarters 
of beef, 209 joints of meat, 224 pigeons, 210 fowls, 53 wild 
fowls, 56 ducks, 36 rabbits, 23 hares and leverets, 20 geese, 
59 ruff's, and 4 plovers. All the game and poultry was putrid, 
but of the meat 15352 lb. were diseased, 4120 lb. were putrid, 
and 6541 lb. were from animals that had died from natural 
causes. 
“Most of the meat was seized in Newgate market by Mr. 
Fisher and Mr. Newman, and the game and poultry in 
Leadenhall by Mr. Davidson. It is but right to state that 
the salesmen have given great assistance to the officers in the 
execution of this part of their duties by informing them of 
the arrival of the meat at the market, and bv giving up the 
names and addresses of the senders. 
“ In this way they had been able to institute proceedings 
against the most flagrant offenders, and during the quarter 
three persons have been convicted at the Old Bailey of the 
offence of sending diseased meat to the city markets. In two 
cases the punishment was imprisonment, and in the third a 
penalty of £20. These proceedings have had the effect of 
checking the supply of bad meat to the markets, for the total 
amount seized during the quarter is not half so much as that 
of the preceding quarter, and during the last month the 
quantity has fallen off very considerably. 
“ Arrangements have been entered into with Mr. Ford, of 
Belle Isle, for the destruction of the meat thus seized ; and 
to ensure its not being used as food, a chemical treatment is 
about to be adopted before the meat leaves the custody of 
the inspectors. 
“ With respect to the Act for preventing the sale of 
adulterated food, only six applications have been made during 
the quarter for the analysis of articles suspected to be 
adulterated—two of these were for beer, one for bread, one 
for milk, and one for cooked ham. Both of the samples of 
beer were of inferior quality, and one was adulterated with 
a sw r eet material like liquorice ; the bread, also, was of inferior 
flour, but the other things w f ere sound/' 
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