London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table 48 Food: Samples taken
| Article | No. of samples | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|---|
| Milk, various | 234 | 5 |
| Milk, new | 7 | - |
| Bread | 1 | - |
| Butter | 40 | - |
| Cakes | 27 | 2 |
| Cooked meat and meat products (other than sausages) | 29 | - |
| Coffee | 2 | - |
| Cream | 55 | - |
| Drugs | 50 | - |
| Fish | 7 | - |
| Fish, canned | 1 | - |
| Fish products | 11 | - |
| Flavouring | 1 | - |
| Fruit, fresh | 5 | 3 |
| Fruit, canned | 1 | - |
| Fruit, dried | 12 | - |
| Fruit squashes | 12 | - |
| Ice cream | 40 | - |
| Margarine | 39 | - |
| Meat | 36 | - |
| Miscellaneous | 11 | - |
| Pepper | 2 | - |
| Preserves | 4 | - |
| Sausages, etc. | 15 | - |
| Soup | 3 | - |
| Suet | 2 | - |
| Sweets | 10 | 1 |
| Vinegar | 39 | 2 |
| Wines and spirits | 16 | 2 |
| Totals | 712 | 15 |
Table 49
Dairies—Registration and Licences
| 115 | |
| Dairymen | 89 |
| Pasteurised milk | 94 |
| Sterilised milk | 107 |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 76 |
| 12 | |
| Dairymen | 7 |
| Pasteurised milk | 12 |
| Sterilised milk | 12 |
| Tuberculin tested milk | 12 |
FACTORIES
Table 50 On register
| Type of factory | On register 1.1.56 | Added to register | Deleted from register | Totals at 31.12.56 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-power | 73 | 1 | 4 | 70 |
| Power | 829 | 29 | 22 | 836 |
| Total | 902 | 30 | 26 | 906 |