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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE VI Food and Drugs FOOD INSPECTOR'S VISITS
| Grocers | 518 |
| Milk Distributors, etc. ... ... ... | 129 |
| Ice Cream | 64 |
| Fish Premises | 8 |
| Chemists | 6 |
| Shops and Stalls | 1,250 |
| Miscellaneous | 387 |
| Slaughterhouses | 60 |
| Cafes | 3 |
| Butchers | 83 |
| Pharmacy and Poisons | 6 |
| Preserved, Pickled, etc., Premises | 2 |
| Bakers | 29 |
| Food Poisoning, Sonne Dysentery, etc | 1,808 |
| FOOD CONDEMNED AND DESTROYED | |
| Tinned Cream ... ... ... | 5 tins |
| Tinned Fruit | 3,286 tins |
| Tinned Fish | 10 tins |
| Tinned Jams | 3 tins |
| Tinned Meat | 688 tins |
| Tinned Milk | 238 tins |
| Tinned Peas | 122 tins |
| Tinned Rice | 3 tins |
| Tinned Soups | 112 tins |
| Tinned Tomatoes | 66 tins |
| Tinned Vegetables | 40 tins |
| Tinned Foods—Miscellaneous | 2 tins |
| Tinned Foods—Miscellaneous | 6 cases |
| Bacon | 2 lbs. |
| Cheese | 73 lb.—8 ozs. |
| Coffee Essence | 240 bottles |
| Confectionery | 696 packets |
| Fish | 1 cwt.—1 qtr. |
| Fish Paste | 192 tins |
| Dried Fruit | 6 lb. |
| Dried Fruit | 59 cartons |
| Fresh Fruit | 1,307 cases |
| Fresh Fruit | 86 1/2-cases |
| Fruit Juice | 40 tins |
| Ham | 10 lb. |
| Meat | 15 cwts.—3 lb.—8 ozs. |
| Offal | 2 qtrs.—6 lb. |