Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table 38 Food unfit for human consumption
Meat and meat products | Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 187i lbs. | |
Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 192 pkts. | ||
bacon | 20 lbs. | Preserves | 31 lbs. |
Cooked | 61 lbs. | Cheese | 37 lbs. |
Tinned | 1,110½ lbs. | Butter | 122 lbs. |
Raw | 1,396 lbs. | Eggs | 42 |
Meat pies | 33 lbs. | ||
Frankfurtrs | 29 tins | Miscellaneous | |
Poultry | Beef cubes | 1,559 singles | |
Biscuits | 43li lbs. | ||
Raw | 362 lbs. | Coconut | 120 lbs. |
Goose fillets | 1 tin | Crisps | 44 pkts. |
Fish | Fish balls | 1 tin | |
Tinned | 133 tins | Frozen food (miscellaneous) | 119 pkts. |
Raw | 6 lbs. | Fruit juice | 74 tins |
Vegetables | Goulash | 1 tin | |
Jelly piping | 6J lbs. | ||
Tinned | 283 tins | Marmalade | 3 jars |
Dried | 142 nkts | Milk pudding | 6 tins |
Fruit | Mincemeat | 1 jar | |
Pastries | 261 singles | ||
Tinned | 1,026 tins | Pudding, cake, pudding mixture, cake ingredients | 197 pkts. |
Fresh | 11 lbs. | ||
Dried | 112 okts. | Pudding, cake, pudding mixture. cake ingredients | 621 lbs. |
Milk | |||
Ravioli | 19 tins | ||
Bottled | 47 pints | Salt | 17 lbs. |
Tinned | 29 tins | Spaghetti | 2 lbs. |
Soups | Spaghetti dinners | 2 tins | |
Sugar | 132 lbs. | ||
I Tinned | 19 tins | Tea | 191 lbs. |
Packets | 90pkts. | Walnuts (shelled) | 4f lbs. |
Table 39
Food: Samples taken
Article | No. of samples | Unsatisfactory |
---|---|---|
Milk (various) | 30 | — |
Butter | 60 | — |
Cakes and biscuits | 4 | — |
Cream | 27 | — |
Drugs | 56 | — |
Fish and fish products | 13 | — |
Fruit (fresh, canned and dried) | 17 | — |
Ice cream | 27 | — |
Liver | 24 | — |
Margarine | 30 | — |
Meat and meat products | 113 | 7 |
Preserves | 10 | — |
Soft drinks and fruit juices | 5 | 1 |
Spirits | 21 | 1 |
Sweets | 7 | — |
Vinegar and non-brewed condiments | 50 | 4 |
Vegetables | 6 | — |
Miscellaneous | 23 | 4 |
Total | 523 | 17 |