London's Meat and Fish.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 32, 6 August 1897, Page 2

London's Meat and Fish.

o It may be reassuring to any wbo had doubts as to how London was to be fed during the Jubilee month —when it was estimated at least 2,000,000 visitors wonld be housed in London — to glaaee over the reports of tbe Markets Committees of the Corporation. Take first the Cattle Market. Here in 1896 tbere were delivered 85,290 cattle and 698,090 sheep. Cross, ing now to the Central Markets, where only dead meat ia dealt witb, we find tbat in the same year the Bailway Companies delivered 242,189 tons, and that 187,014 tone were received from other sources, or together 879,203 tone. At the Corporation's foreign cattle market at Deptford— on ths site of the old Government shipbuilding yarde — there were landed laat year 218,637 cattle and 205,883 sheep, which, after being kept ten days as a maximum, were slaughtered in the yards provided for the purpose- The United States sent 188,538 cattle and sbeep ; Canada, 24,809 cattle and 89,800 sheep; and tho Argentine Bepublio, 46,258 cattle and 226,724 sbeep. At Billingsgate in 1896 tbe Bailway Companies delivered the greater part of 96,278 tons of fish, and a fnrlber 42,884 tons came by water, givieg a total of 138,162 tons of fish. Multiplying this by 2240, it will be seen that tbe Metropolis secnred about 309,482,0001ba ef fish from this depot, wbich gives a fair average supply a day.