Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 |