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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE VI Food and Drugs FOOD INSPECTOR'S VISITS.
| Grocers | 278 |
| Butchers | 50 |
| Cafes | 4 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 55 |
| Potted, Pickled, etc., Premises | 4 |
| Pharmacy and Poisons | 9 |
| Fish Shops | 9 |
| Shops and Stalls | 1,430 |
| Bakers | 10 |
| Dairies | 31 |
| Miscellaneous | 210 |
| FOOD CONDEMNED AND DESTROYED | |
| Bacon | 107 lbs. |
| Biscuits | 176 and 102 pkts. |
| Breakfast Cereals | 37 pkts. |
| Butter | 102 pkts. |
| Cakes | 20 |
| Cheese | 28 pkts. |
| Desiccated Coconut | 684 pkts. |
| Fish—Fresh | 31 stones |
| Flour | 18 lbs. |
| Fruit—Fresh | 932 boxes and 333 cases |
| Fruit—Dried | 558 cartons |
| Ice Cream | 94 brickettes, 40 splits, 120 lollies |
| Jam | 122 jars |
| Lard | 2 pkts. |
| Margarine | 7 pkts. |
| Meat | 927 lbs. and 34 lambs |
| Meat Puddings | 3 |
| Onions | 593 bags, 2,049 half bags, 2,182 nets, 732 cases and 2 tons |
| Pickling Cabbage | 50 kilos |
| Potatoes | 2 tons |
| Rice | 1.27 lbs. |
| Sausages | 92 lbs. and 45 tins |
| Sauce and Pickles | 28 jars |
| Squash—Orange | 6 bottles |
| Sugar | 238 2-lb. pkts. |
| Tea | 83 pkts. |
| Tinned Cream | 7 tins |
| Tinned Fish | 258 tins |
| Tinned Fruit | 181 tins |
| Tinned Meat | 284 tins |
| Tinned Milk | 161 tins |