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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

Hammersmith 1936

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

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UNSOUND FOOD.
No seizure of unsound food was made during the year.

Table: The following is a list of unsound food condemned during the year:—

The following is a list of unsound food condemned during the year:—

Commodity.Condition.Result.
6 boxes Peaches (15 per box)Unsound and Unfit for foodSurrendered
3 boxes Peaches (18 per box)dittoditto
91 boxes Peaches (18 per box)dittoditto
7 boxes Pearsdittoditto
1 box Mackereldittoditto
2 Chickensdittoditto
3 Chickensdittoditto
3 Chickensdittoditto
3 boxes Pearsdittoditto
123 cwts. Potatoesdittoditto
2 Fowls (5½ lbs.)dittoditto
2 Ducks (10 lbs.)dittoditto
2 Chickensdittoditto
2 boxes Fillets of Coddittoditto
1 Chickendittoditto
2 stones of Skatedittoditto
2 boxes Filleted Haddockdittoditto
9 bushels Pearsdittonitto
1 box Mackereldittoditto

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CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
OF FOOD.
The chemical examination of food is carried out by the
Public Analyst at the Laboratories, Royal Dental Hospital,
Leicester Square.
Eight hundred samples taken under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Acts were examined during the year.
Over 50 per cent. of the articles analysed were milk
samples.