Punch (80.1881)

June 25, 1881.]

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BRINGING FISH TO A NICE MARKET.

The well-fed, perhaps over-fed, supporters of Billingsgate will
probably not be shocked to hear that, during the merry month
of May, about six thousand pounds of fish-food a-daywere con-
demned and destroyed,at this ill-regulated and totally inadequate
market. Eighty-three tons of fish corrupted and annihilated in a
month, and representing brain-power enough to furnish half the
Corporations, Vestries, and Parliaments in the universe !_ If the
hungry and starving poor could reach this food before it is spoilt
by human wickedness and folly, the Metropolis would be saved
from at least two horrible scandals. But the Commission of Inquiry
will set this right. At least, let us hope so.

Go it, Mr. J. T. Bedford. You owe it to yourself and the
public to show that you detest anvthing like a nuisance or an
obstruction. So—away with the Billingsgate as it is, and let us
see what it is to be in the future.