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Coulsdon and Purley 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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MEAT.
As slaughtering ceased at the two licenced slaughterhouses
in January 1940 no carcases of neat were inspected except
those of animals, which were privately owned and slaughtered
partly for their owners' consumption on the authority of the
Local Food Office.
Only 8 pigs were thus killed and inspected, the
carcases of all being satisfactory.
UNSOUND FOOD.
The following unsound foods were surrendered during the year:-
| Vegetables | 336 lbs. |
| Cheese | 101½ " |
| Coffee | 162 " |
| Butter | 92½ " |
| Meat | 19 " |
| Bacon | 104 " |
| Fish | 509 " |
| Tinned goods etc: | 1,236¼ " |
| 2,560¼ lbs. |
This amount is more than seven times the quantity, found
to be unfit for human food in the previous year.
Certain of these goods were collected by the Ministry
of Food Salvage Department, the majority being disposed of
locally for animal food and the remainder destroyed.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938. SAMPLES TAKEN DURING 1942.
| Articles. | Analysed. | Adulterated or deteriorated. | Prosecutions. | Con victions . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal | Informal | Total | Formal | Informal | Total | |||
| Anti-gas ointment No. 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| -do- -do- No. 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Appella apple juice | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Apple rings | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ashex flavoured spread | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Aspirin tablets | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Bacon | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Baking powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Batter flour | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Batter mix | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Beer | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Betox sandwich spread | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Blancmange powder | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Bread | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Butter | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cake flour | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Castor oil | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Cheese powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Citrate of magnesia | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Cocoa | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Coffee | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Cooking fat | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Compound syrup of figs | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Confectionery | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Curry powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Custard powder | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Custard pudding powder | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Dessert powder | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Drinking chocolate sweetened | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Egg substitute powder | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Epsom salts | 1 | 1 | ||||||