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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

Wood Green 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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3U
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) Milk Supply.
The greater part of the milk supply is in the hands of large
firms and combines, who supply milk in bottles filled at their
depots outside the borough.
(1) No cattle are kept in the borough.
(2) The following licences for the sale of milk under special
designations have been granted during the year :—

Table: Licences in respect of shop or other premises (not being the establishment at which the milk is produced or bottled) at or from which the milk is sold.

Licences in respect of shop or other premises (not being the establishment at which the milk is produced or bottled) at or from which the milk is sold.

Tuberculin Tested.Accredited.Pasteurised.
4—14

Table: Supplementary Licences to sell milk from premises which are outside the area of the Licensing Authority.

Supplementary Licences to sell milk from premises which are outside the area of the Licensing Authority.

Tuberculin Tested.Accredited.Pasteurised.
2—2

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All the firms concerned produced and bottled this graded milk
at premises outside this borough.
(3) It has been necessary to refuse registration of one retailer
as the premises were unsatisfactory.
(6) Meat.
There is only one licensed slaughterhouse in the Borough and
the occupier has given notice of the times of slaughtering so that
all animals killed on the premises may be examined by the Sanitary
Inspector before being disposed of.
There are no public slaughterhouses in the Borough.