SOMETHING ABOUT SAUSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 174, 9 December 1876, Page 4

SOMETHING ABOUT SAUSAGES.

[west SUSSEX GAZETTE.] Thebe is always a mystery as to the materials of which a sausage is composed, which sheds a glow of romance over this article of food that adds no doubt much to its popularity. Occasionally, however, the curtain that conceals the sausage-maker’s operations is lifted for a moment, and a glimpse thus obtained reveals much that for the happiness of the public would perhaps have better remained in obscurity. No sausage consumer, for instance, can read unmoved the account of what was seen by the inspector of nuisances and the medical officer of the Brentfort district when they visited the premises of Mr James Peek, a pork butcher and sausage maker “in an extensive way of business” at Brentford, who was charged at the petty sessions in that town, recently with having on his premises for the purpose of manufacture into human food upwards :of a quarter of a r tbhof jputrid flesh. ' On the'2lst~June~the~ inspector and the medical officer paid Mr Peek a visits - Passing through the shop, they entered the chopping room, were several men were at work, and a horse was harnessed to a machine. On a bench near was a quantity of meat cut up small, several pounds of broken German sausages, about thirty halves of saveloys, and several pieces of fat pork, all in “ a shockingly putrid state,” The lot weighed 421b5.:. Near this was about two hundredweight pf, mouldy, bread. In the /slaughter-house-were-- tie l shin ami ribs of a mysterious -beast, “ anparehtly:a ;cow;” In the incest comer of a iound a pickling tub, containing Ci a quantity of flesh of all colors,” the stench from which was abominable. By the side of the tub was a basket filled,with flesh recently salted. It was quite putrid and full of large maggots. ■ ■ The moai in the tub weighed 2cwt. 201b. So homble.-was;the smell which pervaded the place-tiat ihe- medical officer-nearly fainted. The magistrates sentenced Mr Peek to ,thrpe„ months’ .imprisonment, with hard labor, J conwdenng mat he mightdiave pote^ and scattered death ayui'd ; through the district, was a very slight punishment for an offence which the Bench-justly-designated—as~--one-of-the-most execrable character.”