Condemned meat : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon various methods of dealing with meat seized as unfit for human food in the City of London / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

  • Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Condemned meat : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon various methods of dealing with meat seized as unfit for human food in the City of London / by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    same, especially as these gentlemen are only too eager to avail themselves of the machinery supplied by the Commission for the gratuitous and speedy rid- dance of their unsaleable commodity. I he question is one of great magnitude, and it may be considered a political problem as to how far the public buidens should be increased for the protection of unsuccessful speculators. The second proposition deals with the kind of conveyance in which the condemned meat shall be taken to the place at which it is to be further treated. I have taken some trouble in this matter, and have examined all the vehicles now in use, as well as the contrivance of a respected Member of your Honour- able Court, which I admit has been thoroughly thought out, ingeniously devised, and well executed—none fulfil the requisite conditions, although Mr. Rudkin’s invention comes the nearest to my wants—this, how- ever, being of galvanized iron will not be suitable for my solution for chemical reasons, and I reluctantly