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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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helped during the year, arrangements being made with the National
Kitchens in each district to provide the dinners at a cost of one shilling
per head for mothers and sixpence per head for children. This
amounted during the year to £32 11s.
The total number of visits paid respecting the supply of milk
and of meals amounted to 1,797.
Unsound Food.
23 lbs. cod, 12 barrels of herrings, 11 boxes of haddock, 1 box
of mackerel, 2 boxes of bloaters, 2 boxes of rock salmon, 637 lbs.
of offal, 512 lbs. of rabbit, 8,2621/4 lbs. of bacon, 7053/4 lbs. of beef, 1
case of tripe, 77 lbs. of corned beef, 36 lbs. of veal, 4181/2 lbs. of
mutton, 61 fowls, 224 lbs. of apples, 29 barrels of grapes, 46 cases
of oranges, 118 boxes of tomatoes, 4,048 lbs. of potatoes, 56 lbs. of
currants, 1 bag of peaches, 331 boxes of dates, 140 lbs. of jam,
243 tins of condensed milk, 121/2 lbs. of butter, 34 lbs. of cheese,
and 1,255 eggs were condemned, and the usual certificates granted.
Most of the bacon, mutton, rabbits, veal and beef was sent to a
fat melter in the Borough to be converted into glycerine.
The number of certificates granted to traders in respect of the
above-mentioned food was 196.
Very few complaints were made by the public, as it is now
generally known by retailers that application to this office can be
made in all cases where they are of opinion that the food is not fit
for sale.
Proceedings were taken in one case for exposing bacon for sale
which was unfit for human food, and the defendant was fined
£5, and £3 3s. costs were imposed.
Inspection of Premises where Food is prepared for Sale or Sold.
During the year 197 inspections have been made of fried fish
shops, 317 of butchers' shops, 214 of greengrocers' shops, and 269
of fishmongers' shops, a total of 997. 229 of these inspections
were in Clapham, 76 in Putney, 285 in Streatham, 137 in Tooting,
and 270 in Wandsworth.