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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
Battersea 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Protection of the Food Supply.
Unsound Food.
The following is a tabulated return of unsound food seized or voluntarily surrendered during 1920:—
| Food | Quantity. |
|---|---|
| Apples | 41 cases |
| Bacon | 296¼ lbs. |
| Baked Beans | 1 tin |
| Beef (Scotch) | 25½ stone |
| Butter | 135 lbs. |
| Chaps | 1 box |
| Cheese | 56 lbs. 13 oz. |
| Codfish | 2 boxes |
| Condensed Milk | 146 tins |
| Cooked Ham | 3 10/16 lbs. |
| Corned Beef | 20 1-lb. tins |
| 8 6-lb. tins | |
| Eels | 1 box |
| Eggs | 2481 |
| Fish Paste | 1 tin |
| Herrings | 3 boxes |
| 3 trunks | |
| Kippers | 16 boxes |
| Lard | 1½ lbs. |
| Mackerel | 5 boxes |
| Mandarins | 240 |
| Mutton | 51 lbs. |
| Peaches | 3 tins |
| Pears | 6 boxes |
| Pineapple | 8 tins |
| Pork & Beans | 1 tin |
| Potatoes | 305 bags |
| Potted Meat | 4 small jars |
| Rabbits | 139 lbs. |
| Roe | 1 box |
| Salmon | 6 tins |
| 84 1-lb. tins | |
| Sardines | 1 tin |
| Sausages | 17 lbs. |
| Sheep | 3 whole |
| Skate | 1 trunk |
| „ wings | 4 stone |
| Spaghetti | 1 tin |
| Tomatoes | 55 bundles |
| 13 boxes | |
| 12 tins | |
| 11 baskets | |
| Walnuts | 3 bags |
| Winkles | 1½ bushels |
| 1 bag | |
| Witches | 1 box |