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Finsbury 1912

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912

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mineral waters, hot drinks, liquorice powder, flour, salt, egg
powder, baking powder, chloride of lime, soda, blue, condensed
milk, desiccated soups, rice, pearl barley, lump sugar, moist
sugar, rubber heels, small-toothed combs, baby's comforters,
castor oil, pea flour, tablets of melrose, baby baskets, bon-bons,
dry soap, bootlaces, boot blacking, jam, marmalade, pins, needles,
cotton, thread, Chinese lanterns, candles, herrings, firewood,
pickled onions, bath brick and furniture polish.
Shop B.—The space in front of the counter was 4 ft. 4 ins. by
10 ft.. The counter consisted of two parts apposed at right angles
to each other. The spaces behind were 1 ft. 6 ins. by 12 ft., and
3 ft. 6 ins. by 7 ft. 6 ins. The stock included milk, bacon, cheese,
butter, margarine, corned beef, German sausage, cooked ham,
lard, dripping, jam, marmalade, onions, bread, firewood, eggs,
scented soap, household soap, soda, biscuits, enamelline, matches,
sauces, toys, beef tea, sweets, loaf sugar, moist sugar, custard
powder, packets of tea, loose tea, cigarettes, small-toothed combs,
dressing combs, tablets of melrose, rubber heels, skipping ropes,
boot laces, vinegar, bath brick, mineral waters, starch, blacklead,
paraffin, flour, pinol lozenges, pins, safety pins, needles, thread,
cotton, tapes, buttons, split peas, pearl barley, rolled oats, bird
seed, bird sand, candles, dry soap, lux, carbosil, pickled onions,
mixed pickles, pepper whole and ground, salt, mustard loose
and in tins, pickling spices, bi-carbonate of soda, baking powders,
washing blue, furniture polish, metal polish, pea flour, gas
mantles and chimneys, ketchup, bath brick, whiteing, sardines,
tinned salmon, condensed milk, cocoa, headache powders, loose
coffee, coffee in bottles and in tins, cordials, orange wine, raisins,
currants, sultanas, lemon peel, nutmeg, allspice, stationery,
seidlitz powders, lamp wick, gravy salt, golden syrup, cornflour,
blanc-mange powder, jellies, bloater paste, lung syrup, camphorated
oil, castor oil, hat pins, hair pins, vaseline, and haricot beans.
A special closed-in glass counter case was obtained for milk storage
and the shop was registered.