London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE VI Food and Drugs
| Markets | 83 |
| Cafes, Restaurants etc | 24 |
| Fish Shops | 48 |
| Slaughter Houses (not in use) | 2 |
| Butchers | 162 |
| Milk Premises | 82 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 178 |
| Calls, Stalls etc | 1,204 |
| Grocers | 387 |
| Bakers | 19 |
| Preserved Meat Premises | 39 |
| Pharmacy and Poisons | 46 |
| Miscellaneous | 331 |
| Tinned Meat | 163 |
| „ Fish | 273 |
| „ Vegetables | 608 |
| „ Milk | 949 |
| „ Soup | 209 |
| „ Puddings | 11 |
| „ Fruit | 172 |
| Fish | 427 stone |
| Meat | 1,909 lb. |
| Cheese | 91 lb. 10 oz. |
| Pickles | 54 jars |
| Sauces | 177 bottles |
| Jam | 72 jars or tins |
| Sweets | 71 lb. |
| ' Tea | 3¼lb. |
| Meat or Fish Paste | 54 tins or jars |
| Dried Egg | 1 packet |
| Dried Fruit | 42 tons 1 qr. 2 lb. |
| Macaroni | 3 cwt. 11 lb. |
| Cereals | 13 cwt. 17 lb. |
| Vegetables | 19 cwt. 1 qr. and 28 bags |
| Fruit | 1,279 cases and 174 lb. |
| Eggs | 150 |
| Flour | 1 cwt. 15 lb. |
| Nuts | 9 tons 2 cwt. 1 qr. 24 lb. |
| Desiccated Coconut | 2 cwt. 3 qrs. 7 lb. |
| Whole Coconuts | 113 |
| Vinegar | 82 bottles |
| Sugar | 1 cwt. |
| Nuts | 1 ton 1 cwt. 1 qr. 25 lb. |
| Fruit | 13 cwt. |
| Cereals | 13 cwt. 2 qr. |