The food of London : a sketch of the chief varieties, sources of supply, probable quantities, modes of arrival, processes of manufacture, suspected adulteration, and machinery of distribution, of the food for a community of two millions and a half / by George Dodd.

  • Dodd, George, 1808-1881.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The food of London : a sketch of the chief varieties, sources of supply, probable quantities, modes of arrival, processes of manufacture, suspected adulteration, and machinery of distribution, of the food for a community of two millions and a half / by George Dodd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    P R E E A C E. The subject of the following pages has never yet been treated collectively in a distinct volume. The materials, crude and heterogeneous, lie scattered in an almost end- less number of works — in the Journals of learned socie- ties; in the Reports and statistical Tables published by the government; in the chemical and dietetic works of scientific writers; in the old diaries and £ household books’ published by the Camden, Shakspeare, and other societies; in daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals ; in treatises on commercial and productive industry; in reports and returns made by large trading companies ; and in familiar descriptive sketches —• while numerous other matters pertaining to the Food of Lon- don, and to a due appreciation of the circumstances of its supply, remain yet, and may perhaps long remain, very obscurely known. The author has endeavoured to survey this re- markable social phenomenon, though necessarily in a cursory manner, in most of its principal aspects, — in its relation to the past history of London, the a. a