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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

Greenwich 1962

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

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consumed at the bar counter and others supplying a cooked lunch
in a separate dining room. Three improvements were carried out
at public houses as a result of informal action and in one instance,
due to redevelopment, one public house was substantially altered
structurally to the department's satisfaction.

Table: Food Rejected.—The following table is a summary of unsound food voluntarily surrendered during the year under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 180(8) most of which was processed and used for animal feeding :—

Food Rejected.—The following table is a summary of unsound food voluntarily surrendered during the year under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 180(8) most of which was processed and used for animal feeding :—

Shops, Stalls, etc.:—
Meat—
Beef594 lbs.
Pork69 „
Bacon25 „
Rabbits230 „
Lambs' Hearts320 „
Ox Kidneys54 „
Chicken24 „
Sausages48 „
1,364 lbs.
Canned and Other Foods—
Foods, Various (Canned)1,549 „
Meats (Canned)3,226 „
Cheese23 „
Fish42 „
Fish (Canned)430 „
Prunes684 „
Tomatoes (Canned)2,901 „
Fruit (Canned)1,551 „
Fruit Juice (Canned)346 „
Fruit Pulp (Canned)256 „
Ice Cream2,101 „
13,109 lbs.
14,473 lbs.

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Compared with the previous year, the amount of meat rejected
fell by 5,622 lbs. during 1962, and the total of all food rejected
by 51,821 lbs.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924/52.—These regulations
provide for the supervision of slaughterhouses, butchers'
shops, stalls and the protection of meat against contamination by
dirt and flies, etc., in transport and handling.
Butchers' Shops and Stalls.—These are under the constant supvision
of the Food Inspectors who made 119 visits of inspection
and arranged for the correction of insanitary defects at 5 premises.
As with other premises, legal proceedings are instituted only
after disregard of the Officer's warning and in no instance was it
necessary to resort to this procedure.