Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    control in these places runs the danger of being eluded, and in consequence a thorough daily inspection is held by four police- men, who have previously received some instruction in judging meat. The principal object of this inspection is to ascertain that all the meat for sale is furnished with the control stamp; but at the same time the meat is examined as to possible deterioration from being kept too long and being thereby rendered unfit for human food, or as to more or less uncleanly mode of treatment. The inspection includes shops, warehouses, mincing machines, etc., and takes place two or three times monthly in each business at unstated periods.” 1 1 Denmark: Its Medical Organisation, Hygiene and Hemography, pp. 113-115. Paper contributed by St. Friis, Copenhagen, Veterinary Surgeon to the Copenhagen Board of Health.