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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 1939
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1939
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UNSOUND FOOD.
The general inspection of food in shops and on stalls forms part
of the duty of the District Sanitary Inspectors. Food, in the quantities
stated, came under the notice of the Inspectors during the year,
and being found unfit for human consumption was destroyed.
Description of Food
Weight
tons
cwts.
qrs.
lbs.
2
3
14
Fish
-
Fruit
4
-
10
Meat
-
3
2
14
Milk
-
-
-
5
Poultry
-
-
-
4
Vegetables
-
-
-
24
Total
-
3
15
10
MILK PREMISES.
MILK AND DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1922.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
Twenty-one milk sellers were registered under the above Acts
during 1939, and 24 were removed from the Register, making a total
of 253 milk sellers on the Register at the end of the year under report.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER, 1936. During the year under report the following licences were granted:—
| Dealers' Licences. | |
| To bottle and sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 4 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 18 |
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 28 |
| Supplementary Licences. | |
| To sell Accredited Milk | 1 |
| To sell Pasteurised Milk | 15 |
| To sell Tuberculin Tested Milk | 8 |