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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
Hackney 1920
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920
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275 eggs.
3 lbs. butter.
317 tins of condensed milk.
5 cwt. cornflour.
1 box of apples.
20 lbs. of apples.
1 bag of imported cucumbers.
2 boxes of skate wings.
1 box of roker wings.
8 stone of roker wings.
21 boxes of kippers.
3 boxes of bloaters.
3 boxes of haddocks.
2 boxes of plaice.
6 stone of plaice.
1 barrel of herrings.
2 boxes of mackerel.
Articles seized and condemned at the Police Court:—
17 tins of condensed milk.
186 tins of sardines.
14 lbs. of pears.
14 peaches.
Total weight of all foodstuffs destroyed:—
Meat, 3 tons 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 9 lbs.
Bacon, 1 ton 14 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 lbs.
Fish, 14 cwt. 2 qrs. 7 lbs.
Fruit, 2 qrs. 2 lbs.
Provisions, 9 cwt. 0 qrs. 25 lbs.
Arthur J. Bobbitt,
Inspector of Meat aval other Foods.