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 Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The following is a statement of such surrenders:—
Apples | 6 cwt. 3 qrs. | Meat, various | 1 cwt. 8 lbs. |
Bananas | 7 lbs. | Megrims | 3 stones |
Bullock (entire) | 1 | Plums | 3 stones |
Bullock's Head and tongue | 1 | Pigs (entire) | 4 |
Pears | 3 qrs. 12 lbs. | ||
Bullocks' Livers | 40 | Pigs' livers | 2 |
Lungs | 3 | Pigs' plucks | 4 |
„ Plucks | 5 | Plaice | 4 stones |
Calf (entire) | 1 | Potatoes | 8 tons, 19 cwt. 1 qr. |
Cauliflowers | 56 lbs. | ||
Chickens | 27 | Rabbits | 49 |
Dogfish | 1 qr.20 lbs. | Salt pork | 24 lbs. |
Fruit, tinned | 134 tins | Sheep (entire) | 1 |
pulp | 80 lbs. | Sheep's heads | 2 |
Greengages | 2½ cwt. | Sheep's plucks | 3 |
Herrings | 6 cwt. 2 qrs. | Skate | 4½ stones |
Lamb (entire) | 1 | Tomatoes | 3 cwt. |
Lamb | 3 cwt. | Whelks | 3 cwt. |
Mackerel | 1 cwt. 14 lbs. |
(Other than those in respect of adulteration, particulars of which will
be found in a succeeding Table).
Date | Offence. | Fine. | Costs. | Remarks. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
1931 | ||||||||
July 21 | Exposing for sale Imported Tomatoes not properly marked | 10 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 4 summonses | |
„ | Exposing for sale Imported Fresh Apples not properly marked | |||||||
Aug. 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Dismissed on payment of costs. | ||||
„ | (b) Premises not registered as dairy (32 Tanners Hill) | |||||||
„ | (c) Non-registration as dairyman (2nd person) | |||||||
Oct. '21 | (a) Non-registration as dairyman | 10 | 0 | - | ||||
„ | (b) Premises not registered as dairy(44 Staunton Street) | 10 | 0 | „ „ |
Food Poisoning.
No instance of food poisoning was brought to my notice during the
year.