Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following table shows the detailed results of these examinations for the year and preceding years:-
1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | ||||||
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Samples | % | Samples | % | Samples | % | Samples | % | Samples | % | |
Satisfactory-Grade I | ||||||||||
Grade II | ||||||||||
Unsatisfactory-Grade III | ||||||||||
Grade IV | 3 | |||||||||
Totals |
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS The following 9 prosecutions were undertaken during 1953 under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
No. | Court and Date of Hearing. | Offence | Result of Proceedings. | |||||
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Fines | Costs | |||||||
s | d | £ | s | d | ||||
l | Marylebone 4.3.53 | (a) Mouse droppings in bread | 0 | 0 | ||||
(b) Dirty bakeroom | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
(c) Dirty bread store | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
2 | Marylebone 17.3.53 | Quantity of stone in "Black Eye Peas" | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
3 | Clerkenwell 12.5.53 | (a) Beetle in bread | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
(b) Dirty bakehouse | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Marlborough 5.11.53 | Lack of ventilation to W.C. | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Marlborough 5.11.53 | Lack of ventilation to kitchen | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
6 | Marlborough 5.11.53 | Failure to keep walls of kitchen in proper state of repair | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
Marlborough 5.11.53 | Failure to keep kitchen ceiling | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
8 | Marlborough 5.11.53 | Accummulation of filth on floor | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Marlborough 5.11.53 | Failure to prevent contamination of food | |||||||