SOMETHING ABOUT SAUSAGES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 239, 6 November 1876, Page 4

SOMETHING ABOUT SAUSAGES.

(West Sussex Gazette.) There is aiwßya a mystery as to tie materials of which a fausage is cotr:poHed, which Buoiis a glow of romance over this article of food that adds no doubt.mucb to its popularity. Occasionally, bowever, the curtain that conceals ihe sausage-maker's operations is lifted for a moment-, and tbe gliropie thus obtained reveals much that for the happiness of tbe public would perhaps have better remained in obscurity. No sausage consumer, for in&iance, enn read unmoved the account of what was seen by the inspector of nuisances and tbe medical officer of tba Bivntford district when (bey visited tbe premises of Mr James Peek, k poik butcher and sausage-maker in an "extensive way of business" at Brentford, who was charged at tbe petty sißiions in that town, receutly, with having on bis premises for the purpose of manufacture into huraau food upwards of a quarter of a ton of putrid flesh. On the 21st June tbe inspector rdc! tbo medical oflicer paid Mr Patk a visit. Paseiug through the shop the/ entered ihe chopping room, where severnl men were ut work, and a borse wan harnessed to a raechine. On a bench near was a quantity of meat cut up small, several pounds of brokeu German eausages, about thirty bulves of saveloy?, and several pieces of fat pork, all in a "shockingly putrid slate." The lot weighed 421b. N^ar ibis w-8 about, two hundredweight of mouldy bread. In tbe slaughter houße woro the ebin and ribs of 8 mysterious beast, "apparently a cow." In the darkest corner of a loft was fouud a pickling tul> f co'iuairting " a quantity ot flosh of all colors," tbe stench from which was abominable. By tbe side of tie tub was a basket filled wth fle'sh recently salted. It was quite putrid and full of large maggots. Tbe meat iu the tub weighed 2cwt 201b. So horrible wiiß the smell wbiub peivaded the place that tbe medieul oliicer nearly faintmi. The magistrates eenteuceil Mr Peek to three months' imprisonment with bard labor, wbicb, considering thai, he might hp.ve poisoned all bis customers and scattered death and desolation through the district, was u very sligbi; punishment for an offence wbicb ihe Boacb justly designated as "one of the most execrable character."