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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Food Unfit for Human Consumption.
| Meat. | Miscellaneous (continued). | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon | 3,348 ¾lbs. | Chocolate marzipan | 14 ozs. |
| Cooked | 28¾ lbs. | Cocoa | 16 lbs. |
| Tinned | 3,896 tins | Coconut | l½ lbs. |
| Raw | 3,1474½ lbs. | Coffee | 1 tin |
| Cream | 41tins | ||
| Fish. | Dried fruit (figs) | 13½ lbs. | |
| Dried fruit (prunes) | 11 lbs. | ||
| Tinned | 864 tins | Dried fruit (raisins) | 14¾ lbs. |
| Raw | 245 lbs. | Dried fruit (sultanas) | 21 lbs. |
| Dried fruit salad | 16 lbs. | ||
| Vegetables. | Fruit juice | 1,193 tins | |
| Tinned | 5,791 tins | Gelatine | 14 lbs. |
| Raw | 622 lbs. | Ground cloves | 3 tins |
| Macaroni cheese | 1 tin | ||
| Fruit. | Mayonnaise | 8 jars | |
| Tinned | 15,496 tins | Mint sauce | 1 jar |
| Paste | 5 jars | ||
| Raw | 354¼.lbs | Pickled cabbage | 3⅓ lbs. |
| Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 1,824½ lbs. | Pickles | 5 jars |
| Preserves | 4114½ lbs. | Pudding mixture | 21 lbs. |
| Cheese | 135½ lbs. | Soup | 485 tins |
| Butter and fats | 4 lbs. | Sponge pudding | 7 tins |
| Tinned milk | 2,330 tins | Stem ginger | 1 jar |
| Miscellaneous. | Synthetic cream powder | 7 lbs. | |
| Syrup | 6 tins | ||
| Biscuits | ½ lb. | Tomato juice | 24 tins |
| Candied peel | 4 oz. | Tomato pulp | 39 tons, 19 cwts. 6 lbs. |
| Chocolate | 40 bars | Vegetable salad | 1 jar |
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 The tomato pulp was used for pig food.
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 | 244 | - |
| Arrowroot | 5 | - |
| Baking powder | 1 | - |
| Biscuits | 1 | - |
| Bread | 1 | - |
| Butter | 16 | - |
| Cakes | 36 | 1 |
| Cheese | 1 | - |
| Chocolate drink | 3 | 3 |
| Coffee and chicory essence | 1 | - |
| Cooked meat | 34 | - |
| Cornflour | 1 | - |
| Crab meat | 1 | - |
| Cream | 43 | - |
| Dried egg | 1 | - |
| Drugs | 50 | - |
| Egg vermicelli | 1 | - |
| Fish | 1 | - |
| Fish cakes and pastes | 14 | - |
| Flour | 4 | - |
| Fruit, tinned | 1 | - |
| Fruit drink | 4 | - |
| Fruit syrup | 2 | - |
| Ice cream | 48 | - |
| Jam | 3 | - |
| Jelly | 2 | - |
| Lard | 1 | - |
| Margarine | 7 | - |
| Marzipan | 1 | - |
| Mayonnaise | 2 | - |
| Meat | 4 | - |
| Meat paste | 4 | - |
| Meat pie | 6 | - |