Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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The following table gives particulars of the quantities and nature of the unsound food brought to the Health Department for inspection and destruction during 1908:—
Food. | Quantity. | Where purchased. |
---|---|---|
Apples | 1 barrel | Covent Garden Market |
Bananas | 1 crate | Borough Market |
„ | 1 „ | Covent Garden Market |
„ | 1 „ | Borough Market |
„ | 104 crates | — |
BrusselsSprouts | 5 bags | Covent Garden Market |
Coal-fish | 1 case | Billingsgate Market |
„ | 1 trunk | „ „ |
Codling | 1 „ | „ „ |
„ | 1 box | „ „ |
Grapes | 14 lbs. | Spitalfields |
„ | 14 lbs. | Borough Market |
Hake | 1 box | Billingsgate Market |
„ | 1 „ | „ „ |
Herrings | 2 cases | „ „ |
„ | 2 | „ „ |
„ | 1 box | „ „ |
„ | 1 barrel | „ „ |
Kippers | 16 boxes | „ „ |
Lemon Soles | 1 box | „ „ |
Ling | 1 trunk | „ „ |
Mackerel | 1 box | „ „ |
Oranges | 650 | 321 York Road |
Pears | 458 barrels | — |
„ | 5 bushels | Covent Garden Market |
„ | 1 box | „ „ „ |
Plaice | 5 stone | Billingsgate Market |
Plums | 11 baskets | Borough Market |
„ | 1½ bushels | Covent Garden Market |
Potatoes | 1 barrel | Borough Market |
„ | 4 bags | „ „ |
Rabbits | 28 | Smithfield Market |
„ | 12 | „ „ |
Strawberries | 37 baskets | Borough Market |
Tomatoes | 20 boxes | Covent Garden Market |
„ | 10 „ | „ „ „ |
„ | 4 „ | Borough Market |
„ | 8 „ | Covent Garden Market |
„ | 8 „ | „ „ „ |
„ | 64 „ | „ „ „ |
Winkles | 1 bag | Billingsgate Market |