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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
Southwark 1916
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1916
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TABLE 50.
Table showing the total quantity of Foodstuffs examined at the wharves during the year 1916, the quantity found to be unsound, the notices served
and the method of disposal of the unsound portion.
| Foodstuffs. | Quantity and Weight examined. | Weight found to be unsound. | Surrendered by Owner. | Seized by Inspector. | Notices served. | How unsound portion disposed of. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity. | Weight. | (a) Detention. | (b) Release | |||||||||||
| T. | C. | Q. | L. | T. | C. | Q. | ||||||||
| Apricots, tinned | 1325 cases, 8 tins | 36 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 20 | Yes | — | 3 | 1 | Destroyed at Council's Depot. |
| Apples, do. | 825 cases | 13 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16 | Yes | — | 1 | — | do |
| Albumen | 425 cases | 26 | 13 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Anchovies, tinned | 30 cases, 26 tins | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Apples | 154 boxes | 2 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Yes | — | 1 | — | Destroyed at Council's Depot. |
| Asparacus, tinned | 30 cases | 0 | 6 | 1 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Beef, frozen | 1043 hinds, 152 bags, 1126 fores, 1841 quarters, 150 crops, 25 pieces | 197 | 10 | 2 | 14" | 5 | 15 | 2 | 20 | Yes | 1 | 2 | Released to J Knight, Ltd., Silvertown, E., to be used for soap boiling. | |
| Beef, tinned | 14384 cases, 173 tins | 453 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 4 | a part | a part | 4 | 69 tons 5 cwt. were seized by the Inspector, condemned by the Magistrate at Tower Bridge Police Court and ordered to be destroyed. 1053 cases weighing 16 tons 14 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs. were released to C. & B. Webb, 155, Bow Road, E., to be used for soap boiling. The remainder was destroyed at the Council's Depot, | |
| Bacon | 152 bales, 3063 boxes, 296 pieces, 60 sides | 447 | 11 | 1 | 23 | 207 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Yes | 20 | 22 | 206 tons 14 cwt. were released for soap boiling as follows :—198 tons 2 cwt. to J. Knight, Silver-town, E. : 4 tons 2 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs. to E. Cook, Ltd.. Bow, E.; 3 tons 18 cwt. 2 qrs. to T. Brown, Honey Farm, Chingford, and 11 cwt. to H. Brown, Bails Farm, Walthamstow. The remainder was destroyed at the Council's Depot. | |
| Butter | 60 boxes, 50 pails, 189 casks, 15 tubs | 12 | 14 | 2 | 20 | — | o o | 4- | ||||||
| Beef, salted | 222 casks, 93 pieces | 20 | 2 | 2 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Beans, tinned | 191 cases | 3 | 18 | 0 | 22 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Condensed Milk | 4721 cases | 87 | 9 | 2 | 22 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 13 | Released to be used for pig or poultry feeding as follows :—23 tons 14 cwt. 1 qr. 12 lbs. to H. Wellband it Son, Otford ; 1 ton 1 cwt. 1 qr. 29 lbs. to H. Bean & Son, Heathfield; 10 cwt. 3 qrs. to J. M. Harris, Calue, Wilts., and 8 cwt. to Frank Cross, Edgware. | ||
| Cornflour | 315 bags | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | |||
| Cream, tinned | 447 cases | 5 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | Released to H. Wellband, Otford, for poultry feeding. | ||
| Carried forward | 1328 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 339 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 78 | 47 | ||||