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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
Bethnal Green 1908
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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FOODSTUFF SEIZED.
| Fruit | 3 cwts. | 0 qr. | Ist. | 121 lbs. |
| Meat | 2 qr. | 1 St. | 81 lbs. | |
| Fish 2 st. 0 | 2 st. | 0 lbs. | ||
| Total | 4 cwts. | 0 qr. | 1 st. | 6 lbs. |
Four fowls were also seized in an almost putrid
condition. They were offered for sale by a woman
who had been warned and cautioned officially only a
fortnight prior to this offence.
The learned Magistrate, after hearing her own
story, said he regarded her as simply a public danger
and that on her own showing this was a shocking
case and he sentenced her to five weeks in the second
division.
FOODSTUFF SURRENDERED.
| Fish 2 | 1 ton. | 7 cwt. | 2 qr. | 1 St. | 3 lbs. |
| Fruit | IB cwt. | 1 qr. | Ist. | 3 lbs. | |
| Meat | 5 cwt. | 2 qr. | 0 st. | 5 lbs. | |
| Vegetables | 1 cwt. | 0 qr. | 0 st, | 8 lbs. | |
| Rabbits | 1 qr. | 1 st. | 4 lbs. | ||
| Total | 2 ton. | 8 cwt. | 0 qrs. | 0 st. | 9 lbs. |
Cases of Special
Interest.
The following are perhaps the only cases that
need be commented upon.
1. Seizure of about 12 lbs. of beef and pork on the
Ist May, at Brick Lane. Defendant said he
thought the decomposing meat would be rendered
lit for consumption if well washed in water.