The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The cattle plague and diseased meat, in their relations with the public health, and with the interests of agriculture : a letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intentions and a most worthy servant of the Gity Corporation, I submit that the alleged evil is a very regretable reality ; yet it is no matter of surprise. Mr. Pocklington is the collector of rents of Newgate Market for the City, a duty for which he receives four per cent, and which must necessarily occupy the greater part of his faculties, he being upwards of eighty years of age. Very true is it that Newgate Market contains a large number of very honourable tradesmen, but when the public health is concerned, the goodwill of individuals must only be trusted to in a limited extent; while it is no- torious and can very readily be proved, that many unprincipled individuals inhabit the market, there to carry on a nefarious trade. in i unwholesome food. '\o Finrrr On Saturday afternoon^ the 22nd instant, I visited Newgate Market. The establishments of the large salesmen were all closed, and, at numerous little shops, meat was being soldj xhiefly by men; of dis*- reputable appeaijance, to 'poor persons.! The quan- tity. tOff -diseased meat, most unquestionably unfit for ditiman food, was very large; what I saw. in half an hour would have laden a single-horse cait: amongst other specimens, I saw, at the back ©f a little dark shbp^ia;! very thin pale fore quarter of beef, extensively ecchymoscd, for which' I' was asked three pence per pound ,* in another place ja saddle of mutton, the muscle of which was pale and pappy, the scanty fat, moist, and deeply tinged