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Battersea 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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Protection of Food Supply.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Unsound Food.

Table: The following is a tabulated return of unsound foods which under the provisions of Section 180 of the Public Health (London] Act, 1936, were brought to the notice of the Sanitary Inspectors and voluntarily surrendered during 1937:—

The following is a tabulated return of unsound foods which under the provisions of Section 180 of the Public Health (London] Act, 1936, were brought to the notice of the Sanitary Inspectors and voluntarily surrendered during 1937:—

Food.Quantity.Food.Quantity.
Fish.Fruit, Vegetables, etc.
Haddock2 boxes.Dates1 case and 20
Prawns10 lbspackets.
Roes7 boxes.Lettuces1 crate.
Winkles1 sack.Pears6 boxes.

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Food Poisoning.
Under Section 182 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936,
medical practitioners are required to notify to the Medical Officer
of Health of the district cases of persons under their care suffering
or suspected to be suffering from food poisoning.
Two such cases were notified to the Medical Officer of Health
during the year, neither of which presented features of special
interest.
The foods suspected were submitted to bacteriological examin-
ation but no pathogenic organisms were found, and in each case
the patient recovered.
Slaughterhouses and Knackers' Yards.
The duty of licensing knackers and slaughterers of cattle and
horses, and the premises used by them, was transferred to the
Metropolitan Borough Councils in 1933.
One of the two slaughterhouses remaining in Battersea (No.
205 St. Johns Hill) closed its doors in 1937. At the beginning
of this century there were nine premises licensed as slaughterhouses.
By the end of the War these had been reduced to three,
and the only one now remaining is at No 345 Battersea Park Road
at which only a few animals are slaughtered from time to time.
The licence of these premises was renewed by the Council
in June, and the application of two slaughtermen for the renewal
of their licences under the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, was
granted in December.