Report on the health of Dublin for the year 1867 : to which is added a yearly report of analysis of food etc.

  • Mapother, E. D. (Edward Dillon), 1835-1908
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the health of Dublin for the year 1867 : to which is added a yearly report of analysis of food etc. 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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    IS I attended on twenty-three occasions the Courts of the Lord Mayor and the Recorder, to give evidence in cases of food adul- teration and diseased meat. Waterworks Committee, I made three complete quantitative analyses of lead alloys for the Waterworks Committee, for the purpose of determining the relative amounts of lead, tin, and antimony contained in each specimen. I am engaged in another, and much more extended investigation for this Committee, hut the results are not yet arrived at. Public Abattoirs. By directions of the Committee, I prepared a long Report on the subject of public abattoirs, in which I described, fiom peisonal observation, the public slaughter-houses of Paris, London, and Edinburgh. For the purposes of this document, I obtained valua- ble reports from X)r. Letheby, Medical Officer of Health, London, Dr. Littlejohn, Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh, and other eminent authorities, relative to the modes of inspecting animals and meat offered for sale, as practised in those and other cities. I also stated the results of my own inspection of meat, and the diseases of animals, which rendered their flesh dangerous, or, at least, unwholesome food. This report has been printed by order of the Committee. Liffey Nuisance Committee. I attended the meetings of this Committee, and submitted to them two Reports upon the subject of their inquiry. Committee on Heating and Ventilation of the Council Room. I attended the meetings of this Committee, and submitted to them my views relative to the proper mode of heating the Coun- cil Chamber.