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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
Deptford 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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| Description | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|
| Dates | cases | 890 |
| Flour | bags | 22,524 |
| Lentils | „ | 30 |
| Liquors | cases | 2,406 |
| Middlings | bags | 1,604 |
| Milk Powder | cases | 600 |
| crates | 1,000 | |
| bags | 2,300 | |
| Mineral Water | cases | 2,431 |
| Peas | bags | 1,868 |
| tons | 50 | |
| Spirits | cases | 204 |
| Sugar | bags | 350 |
| Syrups | cases | 166 |
| Tomato Juice | „ | 2,245 |
| Vegetable in Brine | barrels | 148 |
| Wine | cases | 17,479 |
| casks | 134 | |
| packages | 23 | |
II. Unsound Food.
Regular supervision of all food premises and street traders is maintained,
and tradesmen are encouraged to seek the opinion of the
Inspectors as to any food considered suspect, with a view to its
surrender and destruction.
The following quantities of food were voluntarily surrendered
during the year:—
Meat Fowl
Beef, 28 stone Turkeys, 4
Bullocks' livers, 19 Chickens, 3
Bullocks' lungs, 3
Bullocks' heads and tongues, 7
Bullock's mesenteric fat, 2
Bullock's kidney, 1
Pig's head and tongue, 1 Tinned Food, etc.
Pigs' feet, 14 lbs. Sild, 273 tins
Rabbits, 1 parcel Jam, 18 lbs.
Peaches, 95 tins
Fish Rusk, 1 cwt.
Dogfish, 5 stone Sausage, 70 lbs.