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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
Ruislip-Northwood 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]
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MEAT AND OTHER FOODS
There are no slaughterhouses or wholesale meat depots in
this District.
The following items of foodstuffs amounting to 1 ton
5 cwts. 1 qr. 18½ lbs. were examined in retail shops as a
result of complaints from the shopkeepers or the public, and
were condemned
348 lbs. Meat
404¾ lbs.Tinned Meat
28 lbs. Offal
74¾ lbs. Tinned Fruit
43¾ lbs. Tinned Fruit Juice
2¼ lbs.Soup
1,680 lbs. Potatoes
119 lbs. Tinned Vegetables
28 lbs. Fish
14½ lbs. Tinned Fish
91¾ lbs.Tinned Milk
8½ lbs.Cheese
1 lb. Mincemeat
2¼ lbs.Miscellaneous Items
The following details of samples taken by the County Sampling Officers under the above Act within the Ruislip Northwood Urban District during the period 1.4.56 to 31.3.57 have been kindly furnished by Mr. John A. O'Keefe, Chief Officer, Public Control Department, Middlesex County Council.
| ARTICLE | TOTAL SAMPLES PROCURED | UNSATISFACTORY |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 85 | 5 |
| Butter | 21 | - |
| Cakes | 7 | 2 |
| Cheese | 2 | 1 |
| Cooked Meat | 4 | - |
| Cream | 19 | - |
| Dried Fruit | 3 | - |
| Drugs | 19 | - |
| Fish and Fish Products. | 18 | 1 |
| Icc Cream | 14 | - |
| Liver | 3 | - |
| Meat and Meat Products. | 19 | - |
| Margarine | 12 | - |
| Sausages | 11 | - |
| Sweets | 4 | - |
| Vinegar | 15 | - |
| Miscellaneous | 18 | - |
| TOTALS | 274 | 10 |