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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
Willesden 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Miscellaneous (continued). Salad cream 2 bottles
Salt (celery) 402 jars
Milk (full cream condensed) 2 tins Sauce 1 bottle
Milk (full cream condensed un- Sausages 86 lb.
sweetened) 6 tins Shrimps 19 gals.
Milk powder 336 lb. Steak pudding 33 lb.
Mustard ¼ lb. Steak pudding 22 tins
Peach pulp 1 gall. Strained food (babies) 7½ lb.
Pickled onions 2 jars Suet 1 lb.
Porcine liver 38 lb. Sweets 73 lb.
Pudding mixture 1 packet Synthetic cream 1½ lb.
Pulp-tomato 305 tons, 15 cwt., 11 lbs. Synthetic cream 7 cartons
Rabbit 122 lb. Vinegar ½ pint
Method of Disposal of Food Unfit for Human Consumption
With the exception of the tomato pulp, all food was dealt with as trade refuse by the Borough
Engineer's Department and deposited on the controlled refuse tip. Part of the tomato pulp was used for
pig food and the remainder was buried on the land of the owners.
Clean Food (Sampling)
The Middlesex County Council continues to take samples and supervise the control of food adulteration.
The Chief Officer of the Public Control Department has kindly supplied the following information.
Samples Taken
| Article. | No. of samples | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (various) | 243 | 3 |
| Almonds, ground | 2 | — |
| Blackcurrent juice | 1 | 1 |
| Breakfast cereals | 4 | — |
| Butter | 1 | — |
| Cakes | 17 | — |
| Cake mixture | 1 | — |
| Chops | 1 | — |
| Chicken cutlet | 1 | — |
| Coffee | 2 | — |
| Condensed milk | 6 | — |
| Cooked meats | 58 | — |
| Cream | 18 | — |
| Curry powder | 1 | — |
| Dried milk | 1 | — |
| Dripping | 1 | — |
| Drugs | 18 | — |
| Fish | 11 | 1 |
| Fish paste | 3 | — |
| Fruit squash | 3 | — |
| Ice cream | 19 | — |
| Jams | 2 | — |
| Jelly | 1 | — |
| Cheese and macaroni | 1 | 1 |
| Meat pies | 13 | — |
| Minced meat | 16 | — |
| Mincemeat | 1 | — |
| Mustard | 1 | 1 |
| Non-brewed condiment _____ | 1 | — |
| Salad cream | 1 | — |
| Salt | 1 | — |
| Sausages and sausage meat | 107 | 1 |
| Sliced peaches | 1 | 1 |
| Shrimps | 2 | — |
| Soups (tinned) | 2 | — |
| Spirits (various) | 39 | — |
| Stewing meat | 4 | — |
| Suet | 1 | — |
| Sweets (various) | 9 | — |
| Synthetic cream powder | 1 | 1 |
| Tomato puree | 1 | — |
| Tripe | 1 | — |
| Victoria plums (tinned) | 1 | — |
| Vinegar | 61 | 11 |
| Yogurt | 1 | — |
| Total | 681 | 21 |