Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1903
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means of preventing aliens of any and every breed acclimatised
to centuries of inbred, uncleanly personal habits coming here and
registering themselves as retail purveyors of milk.
Probably the task of framing a regulation sufficiently strong,
to make certain Russian Poles cleanly enough to retail milk in an
English city has been too much for any of the superior authorities
to attempt, consequently with all his unfitness thick upon him he
is here competing with the native and handling the article of food
most susceptible to his dirt and unfitness. Some slight notion of
cleanliness may probably be evolved as the result of the following
proceedings taken.
P. C., Brick Lane, dirty milk utensils fined £2 and 23s. costs
H. S., Brick Lane, dirty milk utensils absconded
B. B., Hare Street, dirty milk shop fined £5 and 23s. costs
A. S., Bethnal Green Road, dirty milkshop fined £1 and 23s. costs
A. L., Blythe Street, dirty milk shop fined £3 and 23s. costs
H. E., Hare Street, dirty milk shop fined £1 and 23s. costs
H. L., Darling Row, dirty milk shop fined £1 and 23s. costs
Y. G., Cambridge Road, dirty milk shop fined £1 and 23s. costs
J. L., Brick Lane, dirty milk shop fined — 2s. costs
M. E., Church Street, dirty milk shop fined £2 and 2s. costs
INSPECTION OF FOOD AND MARKETS, Section 47.
The daily inspection of markets and the food exposed for sale
has been continued with excellent results.
The Meat seized was about 2 cwt.
„ Fruit seized was about 1¼ cwt.
„ Rabbit seized was about 51bs.
„ Meat surrendered and removed 8 cwt.
„ Fish surrendered and removed 20¾ cwt.
„ Fruit surrendered and removed 2¾ cwt.
,, Eggs surrendered and removed 836
Making total amounts of meat about 10 cwt., fruit 4 cwt.
fish 20¾ cwt. In other words 1 ton 14¾ cwt. of unsound food was
removed during the year.