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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
Penge 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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The Regulations enable additional control to be exercised over food
business premises, stalls and persons engaged in handling food for human
consumption.
Your sanitary inspectors continued to give advice to occupiers of food
premises on matters relating to food and general hygiene.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human consumption
after examination by your inspectors was 3 tons, 9 cwts., 2 qrs., 24 lbs.
The food condemned were as follows:—
| Baking powder | 17 lbs. | Cocoa | 13 tins |
| Beef | 1,115 „ | Fishpaste | 1 pot |
| Cake mixture | 121 „ | Gravy powder | 44 pkts. |
| Cheese | 298 „ | Lemon curd | 1 jar |
| Chicken | 34 „ | Onions | 1 „ |
| Cornflour | 7 „ | Pickles and sauces | 44 bots. |
| Dried milk | 56 „ | Sponge mixture | 8 pkts. |
| Fish | 252 „ | Vinegar | 3 bots. |
| Liver | 164 „ | Tinned fish | 149 tins |
| Marmalade | 1 „ | „ fruit | 187 „ |
| Mutton | 82 „ | „ ham | 48 „ |
| Pearl Barley | 9 „ | „ meat | 55 „ |
| Pickles | 30 „ | „ milk | 48 „ |
| Pork | 246 „ | „ soup | 49 „ |
| Prunes | 25 „ | „ syrup | 1 „ |
| Semolina | 28 „ | „ vegetables | 399 „ |
| Bananas | 69 bunches | Sandwich spread | 1 jar |
| Batter mixture | 28 pkts. | Wine | 10 gals. |
| Chocolate | 1 tin | Beer | 72 bots. |
Condemnation certificates totalled 143.
The condemned foods were disposed of by incineration or by use for
industrial purposes.
The co-operation of the food traders in bringing to the notice of the department
the existence of suspected unsound food has been maintained.
Milk Supply
There are no cowsheds or pasteurising plants in the district. All milk sold
in the district is special designated milk in sealed containers. There are four
dairies on the register and 27 persons are registered as distributors.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders
The following licences were issued:—
| Dealers' Licences: | |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 6 |
| Pasteurised milk | 11 |
| Sterilised milk | 16 |
| Supplementary Licences: | |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 6 |
| Pasteurised milk | 6 |
| Sterilised milk | 6 |