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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
Hammersmith 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Nature of Complaint
Biscuit containing piece of glass
Ice Cream containing cigarette
Sausage Rolls in mouldy condition
Fried chips with beetle
Bread roll containing iron rust
Milk containing earwig
Milk containing glass splinters
Dirty Milk Bottle
Action Taken
No action
Penalty £1; £5 5s. costs
Warning letter
No action
Warning letter
Warning letter
Warning letter
Penalty £5; £5 5s. costs
| Broiler chickens | 10 |
| Frozen Egg | 18 |
| Cream (Dairy) | 1 |
| „ (Clotted) | 1 |
| „ (Imitation) | 30 |
| „ (Butter) | 1 |
| „ (Fondant) | 2 |
| Chicken Cutlet | 1 |
| Scotch Egg | 1 |
| Hamburger | 1 |
| Mock Salmon Cutlet | 1 |
| Lolly with ice-cream centre | 1 |
| Ice Cream and Ice Cream Mix | 49 |
| Milk | 98 |
| Chocolate Flavoured Drink | 1 |
I felt it desirable that a check should be made on the efficiency
of cooking chickens by the "spit" method which has become
popular of late in some London retail shops, and for that purpose
10 samples of broiler chickens were taken for bacteriological examination
to determine whether this process of cooking was sufficiently
adequate to ensure freedom of pathogenic organisms, particularly
those of the Salmonella group. These samples were obtained from
three different sources and the examinations were made from both
uncooked and cooked birds. In no case were pathogenic organisms