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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

City of London 1900

Report on the proceedings of the Public Health (Sanitary) Department of the Corporation of London during the year 1900

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Table: The above included upwards of ninety thousand tins of various kinds of food, classified as under—

The above included upwards of ninety thousand tins of various kinds of food, classified as under—

25,207Tins of Fruit.
40,032„ Condensed Milk.
3,292„ Fish.
1,940„ Soup.
1,260„ Rabbits.
2,128,, Vegetables.
212„ Meat.
16,560„ Miscellaneous.
Total 90,631

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The remainder of the unsound food dealt
with by the Sanitary Inspectors comprised—
741 Bags of Vegetables.
60 Cwts. of Potatoes.
33 „ Dutch cheese.
480 Skins of Meat.
In addition to the foregoing your Officers took
possession of and destroyed a large quantity of
unwholesome fruit, most of which was consigned
from Holland to jam manufacturers in this
country. The following are the details:—
84 Bushels of Black Currants.
140 Gallons of Apricot Pulp.
120 Baskets of Cherries.
485 „ Black Currants.
3,501 lbs. (1 ton 11 cwt. 1 qr.) of Strawberries..
131 Tubs of Raspberries.
6 Boxes of Oranges.
. One consignment.