London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bermondsey 1914
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1914
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Register of places where Food is Prepared for Sale.
The following table gives the number and kind of the various
places where food is prepared or stored :—
Unsound Food Seizures.
The following prosecutions took place during the year under
report:—
March 19th —
Depositing 101 unsound oranges for
the purpose of sale
Two months' imprisonment
April
Exposing 49 unsound dead turkeys
for sale
Owner fine £10, costs
£5 5s. ; Servant : fine £3
or one month's imprisonment
June 17th-
Depositing 625 unsound oranges and
onelemon for the purpose of sale
Bound over in the sum of
£5 for twelve months'
under the Probation Act
August 19th —
Being in possession of 151 half sieve
of black currants.
Fine £2, costs 31s.
1,566
12
144
278
111
9 8
23
100
562
73
77
88
Coffee stalls ...
Restaurants and eating houses
Milk-sellers
Ice cream
Fruiterers and greengrocers
Food factories
Food wharves and depots
Food stores
Fishmongers, friers and curers
Butchers
Bakehouses
Register of places where Food is Prepared for Sale. The following table gives the number and kind of the various places where food is prepared or stored :—
| Bakehouses | 88 |
| Butchers | 77 |
| Fishmongers, friers and curers | 73 |
| Food stores | 562 |
| Food wharves and depots | 100 |
| Food factories | 23 |
| Fruiterers and greengrocers | 98 |
| Ice cream | 111 |
| Milk-sellers | 278 |
| Restaurants and eating houses | 144 |
| Coffee stalls | 12 |
| 1,566 |