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 Edmonton]
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Various licences were granted as under :—
Primary. | Supplementary. | |
---|---|---|
Pasteurised | 13 | 7 |
Tuberculin tested | 9 | 5 |
22 | 12 |
One of the above retailers is licensed to bottle Tuberculin tested milk and
two are licensed to pasteurise and bottle milk on the premises; one firm
is licensed to bottle pasteurised milk on the premises.
Supplementary licences are granted to retailers who live outside the
Borough but who sell milk in the Borough; the primary licence is granted by
the Authority in which they reside.
The following is a list of the food surrendered for examination and retained as unfit for human consumption :—
2533 tins milk. | 5 stone mackerel |
590 „ meat. | 6 ,, cat fish. |
879 „ fish. | 6 „ roes. |
238 „ beans. | 1 cwt. mussels |
780 „ jam and marmalade. | 418 lbs. Melts. |
673 „ peas. | 4 stone Chitterlings. |
75 ,, pears. | 2 bags whelks. |
363 ,, soup. | 17 lbs. cooked beef. |
166 „ plums. | 2 cases hares. |
95 „ peaches. | 10 cwt. chestnuts. |
184 „ tomatoes. | 39 lbs. prunes. |
26 „ spaghetti. | 13 pkts. All Bran. |
59 „ carrots. | 23 ,, Weetabix. |
17 „ rabbit. | 26 stone sago. |
4 ,, dried egg | 2,663 lbs. rabbits. |
283 „ mussels. | 50 ,, walnuts. |
28 ,, vegetables. | 30 ,, currants. |
29 „ beetroot. | 49 fish cakes. |
27 „ apples. | 38 jars gherkins. |
3 „ cherries. | 1 leg pork. |
20 „ puddings. | 50 lbs semolina. |
41 „ oranges. | 15 pkts. barley. |
24 ,, apricots | 150 bags flour. |
367 „ grapefruit. | 130 lbs oats. |
35 „ chocolate spread. | 24 salmon rolls. |
3 „ peanut butter. | 1 gallon cream. |
10 ,, apple puree. | 50 lbs. sugar. |
98 pots paste. | 7 boxes dates. |
33 „ horseradish sauce | 36 lbs. sweets. |
13 bottles sauce | 95 pkts biscuits. |
16 jars salad cream. | 37 lbs beans. |
16 „ red cabbage. | 38 pkts. cereals. |