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Ruislip-Northwood 1959
[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 14 cwts.
3 qrs. 15½ lbs., were examined in retail shops as a result of
complaints from the shopkeepers or the public, and were
condemned:-
89½ lbs. Meat
482½ lbs. Tinned Meat
½ lb. Offal
334 lbs. Poultry
4 lbs. Sausages
178½ lbs. Tinned Fruit
6 lbs. Tinned Fruit Juice
9 lbs. Dried Fruit
1½ lbs. Soup
3¾ lbs. Tinned Chicken
237¼ lbs. Tinned Vegetables
6½ lbs. Tinned Cream
2½ lbs. Fresh Cream
18¾ lbs. Tinned Fish
56 lbs. Fresh Fish
26¼ lbs. Tinned Milk
4¼ lbs. Cheese
19¼ lbs. Jam and Marmalade
2 lbs. Syrup
160 lbs. Miscellaneous frozen foods
15½ 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 1.4.58 to 31.3.59 have been kindly furnished by Mr. John A.O.Keefe, Chief Officer, Public Control Department., Middlesex County Council.
| ARTICLE | TOTAL SAMPLES PROCURED | UNSATISFACTORY |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (various) | 86 | 1 |
| Butter | 20 | - |
| Cream | 18 | - |
| Fish and Fish Products | 19 | - |
| Drugs | 20 | - |
| Fruit - Fresh and Canned | 5 | - |
| Ice Cream | 7 | - |
| Liver | 15 | - |
| Margarine | 5 | - |
| Meat and Meat Products | 32 | - |
| Sausages, etc. | 10 | - |
| Spirits | 10 | - |
| Sweets | 3 | 1 |
| Vinegar | 21 | - |
| Miscellaneous | 13 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 284 | 3 |