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In cases where the retail vendor has unknowingly
purchased articles of food unfit for human consumption, and
has made no attempt to sell the articles, it is the practice,
when the latter are brought to the Health Office, to grant a
certificate, which enables the retailer to claim the return of
the money paid for the articles to the wholesale dealer. The
food is destroyed at the Council's destructor. During the
year certificates were granted in respect to the following
articles of food, all of which were first covered with disinfectant
and then taken to the destructor and destroyed.
Food.
Quantity.
Where purchased.
Skate and
Roker
84 lbs.
Billingsgate Market.
Skate ...
1 box ...
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Skate ...
8 stone ...
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Skate ...
80 lbs ...
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Cod ...
¾-cwt.
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Winkles ...
1 bag (6 gallons)...
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Plaice ...
1 box ...
„ „
” ...
1 barrel
„ „
” ...
2 barrels ...
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” ...
1 box ...
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Tomatoes ...
16 lbs.
Borough „
Plaice ...
56 lbs. ...
Billingsgate „
Potatoes ...
93 lbs. ...
Borough „
” ...
1 cwt.
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Peas ...
6 sacks
„ „
Potatoes ...
35 lbs. ...
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Tomatoes ...
18 lbs. ...
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Sprats ...
1 box ...
Billingsgate „
Plaice ...
1 box ...
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Grapes ...
138 lbs.
Covent Garden Market
Whiting ...
70 lbs.
Billingsgate Market ...
Herrings ...
1 box ...
„ „ ...
Bread Sold in General Shops.
A considerable quantity of the bread sold in Battersea
is retailed in small general shops, many of which also sell
articles of a more or less objectionable nature. During the