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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

Islington 1921

Sixty-sixth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1921] 38

Table: The food destroyed or otherwise disposed of (chiefly for pigs' food) so as to prevent its use for human food was as follows:

The food destroyed or otherwise disposed of (chiefly for pigs' food) so as to prevent its use for human food was as follows:

Tonscwts.qrs.lbs.
Diseased meat and organs from slaughter-houses-328*
Disesed or unsound meat, etc., from other sources-4116
Bacon-1120
Fish113322
Cheese-2010
Geese--212
Eggs---7
Rabbits .-1224
Fruit, Vegetables, etc.21103
Unwholesome Fruit Pulp3400
Unsound tinned foods (various)511113
Total1314023

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* Of this quantity 2 qrs. 14 lbs. was Tuberculous.
The total amount of unsound or diseased meat, fish, fruit and other food destroyed
was 13 tons 14 cwts. 0 qr. 23 lb. The diseases which affected animal food are set out in
detail on page
Shops, etc., Inspection of.—The number of shops and places where foodstuffs are
sold may be approximated for the year as follows:
Butchers, provision dealers, etc., shops, 206; meat, provisions, rabbits, tinned foods,
etc., stalls, 22; food preparation establishments, 16; fish shops, 100; fish stalls, 12;
fruit shops, 190; and about 60 fruit, etc., stalls and barrows. To these 17,246 visits were
paid, apportioned as follows:
Butchers, Provision Dealers, etc., Shops 6,997 visits.
Food Preparation Establishments 311 „
Butcher, Provision, etc., Stalls 1,325 „
Fish Shops 1,624 „
Fish Stalls 673 „
Fruit Shops 2,456 „
Fruit Stalls 3,860 „
Total 17,246 „
Prosecutions.—A juvenile was found exposing unsound pears for sale on a barrow
at the Metropolitan Cattle Market on behalf of his father who was not present at the time,
and summonses were taken out against the father and the son. On the case being heard,
the father did not appear, as it was said he had been called up by the Army owing to the coal
strike. The summonses were therefore adjourned sine die.
Cowsheds.—There are 4 cowsheds within the Borough, and these received 42 visits
and were found generally satisfactory.
Offensive Trades include 4 tripe dressers, 2 gut scrapers, and the knackers' yard
which received a total of 61 visits. No serious complaint was recorded against them.