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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
Hammersmith 1923
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1923
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UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year no seizure was made
A pig's head was purchased by a woman in Bradmore
Market in October, from a stall and brought to the Town Hall
the following day.
The head was diseased and was submitted to a Justice
of the Peace, condemned and destroyed.
An endeavour was made to trace the stallholder but
without result, he not being a regular vendor in the Market.
The following is a list of unsound food condemned during the year:—
| Commodity. | Condition. | Result. |
| 6 stone of Whiting | Decomposed. | Surrendered. |
| 31 Rabbits | ditto | ditto |
| 1 bundle (4 boxes) Tomatoes | ditto | ditto |
| 1 pony of Beef (6 st. 2 lb.) | ditto | ditto |
| 14 lbs. of Cods' Roes | ditto | ditto |
| 2 boxes of Tomatoes | ditto | ditto |
| 18 boxes of Apples (each 1 bushel) | ditto | ditto |
| 6 stone of Haddocks | ditto | ditto |
| 1 box (11 stone) Cat Fish | ditto | ditto |
| Split Peas, approximate 50 lbs. | Damaged. | ditto |
| Tapioca (Med.) „ 90 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Tapioca (P.) „ 90 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Haricot Beans „56 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Blue Peas „ 50 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Butter Beans „ 56 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Dutch Peas „ 59 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Pearl Barley „ 42 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Rolled Oats „ 42 „ | ditto | ditto |
| Sago „ 41 „ | ditto | ditto |
| 7 stone of Skate | Decomposed. | ditto |
| 1 box of Kippers | ditto | ditto |
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Infectious Diseases.—There were, omitting tuberculosis,
935 cases reported as due to notifiable infectious diseases