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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
Ealing 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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The results were as follows :
| Commodity | Samples | Grade | Not Graded | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Ice Cream— Local Manufacture | 42 | 28 | 1 | 11 | 2 | — |
| Ice Cream— OtherManufacturers | 44 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — |
| Ice Cream Constituents | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Ice Lollies | 9 | — | — | — | — | 9 |
| 96 | 57 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 10 | |
Seven of these samples were reported to be unsatisfactory—
three from local manufacturers, and four from other manufacturers.
Unsatisfactory samples were followed up, either by investigation
at the producer's plant in the Borough or by notification to the
Authorities concerned where the manufacturer's premises were
outside the Borough.
Synthetic Cream.
Twenty-eight samples of synthetic cream were taken from
local manufacturers, all of which received satisfactory bacteriological
reports.
The following foodstuffs were condemned by the Sanitary Inspectors as unfit for human food in the course of their inspections of the various food premises in the Borough :
| Bacon | 55 |
| Bakery Waste | 11,556 |
| Beef | 3,464¾ |
| Biscuits | 1,320 |
| Black Pudding | 14 |
| Brawn | 4 |
| Butter | 20 |
| Calves Head | 18 ¼ |
| Cheese | 157¼ |
| Confectionery | 19,386½ |
| Cocoa Butter | 692 |
| Figs | 40 |
| Fish | 1,1724 |
| Flour | 942 |
| Ham | 111½ |
| Jam | 32 |