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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
Chislehurst 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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| Cheese Unsound | 3 | 19 | ||
| Chicken „ | 1 | 0 | ||
| Cocoanut „ | 4 | |||
| Fish „ | 2 | 3 | 21 | |
| Fish Cakes „ | 5 | |||
| Flour Mice contaminated | 1 | 0 | 16 | |
| Jam Unsound | 20 | |||
| Lamb Decomposed | 2 | 12 | ||
| Meat Paste . Unsound | 1 | |||
| Nuts „ | 9 | |||
| Offal Decomposed | 8 | |||
| Orange Squash „ | 2 | |||
| Pickles „ | 7 | |||
| Rabbits „ | 2 | 17 | ||
| Salad Cream Unsound | 3 | |||
| Sausages Decomposed | 7 | 1 | 3 | |
| Semolina Unsound | 4 | |||
| Suet „ | 9 | |||
| Sugar Confectionery „ | 1 | 7 | ||
| Tapioca „ | 1 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 |
Unsound food is, whenever possible, sent for treatment to a
large local piggery and used for animal food.
There was no consignment of food especially examined during
the year.
MEAT INSPECTION.
There were no slaughterhouses operating in the district, and
there were no applications received during the year for licences to
slaughter animals under the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
PIGGERIES.
There are 28 piggeries in the district, to which 87 visits were
made. Eighteen defects were found and remedied.