Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Table 26. RODENT CONTROL - The following is a summary of the work for the year:
TYPE OF PROPERTY | ||||
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Local Authority | Dwelling Houses | Business etc. | Totals | |
Number of properties | 219 | 55415 | 8441 | 64075 |
Number of complaints | _ | 1036 | 119 | 1155 |
Number of properties inspected | _ | 1244 | 225 | 1469 |
Found to be infested by rats, major | _ | _ | _ | _ |
minor | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Found to be infested by mice, major | _ | _ | _ | _ |
minor | — | 486 | 58 | 544 |
No. of properties treated | _ | 1060 | 136 | 1196 |
Table 27. Unsound Food Condemned 1965
Bacon | 25 lbs. | Milk (fresh) | 6 pints |
Baked beans | 19 tins | Milk | 13 tins |
Biscuits | 185 pkts. | Milk Pudding | 1 tin |
Bread | 2 loaves | Mincemeat | 5 tins |
Butter | 14 lbs. | Pastry & pudding mixes | 56 pkts. |
Cakes | 36 | Peas | 63 tins |
Cereals | 88 pkts. | Pigs' heads | 30 |
Cheese | 15 lbs. | Potato salad | 3 tins |
Chicken (fresh) | 314 lbs. | Potatoes (crystals) | 80 lbs. |
Chicken | 11 tins | Preserves | 11 tins |
Chocolate | 140 bars | Ravioli | 2 tins |
Chocolate drink | 1 tin | Rice | 30 tins |
Coffee | 47 tins | Rusks | 4 lbs. |
Cream | 219 tins | Sago | 5 tins |
Fish (wet) | 749 lbs. | Salt | 10 pkts. |
Fish | 47 tins | Sausages | 11 lbs. |
Flour | 6 lbs. | Soft drink | 2 tins |
Fruit (fresh) | 3,299 lbs. | Soft drink | 1 bottle |
Fruit | 883 tins | Soup | 92 tins |
Fruit juice | 83 tins | Tapioca | 3 pkts. |
Fruit pies | 14 tins | Tea | 35 pkts. |
Ham | 91 tins | Tomatoes | 284 tins |
Herbs | 8 pkts. | Turkey (fresh) | 400 lbs. |
Macaroni | 15 pkts. | Turkey | 1 tin |
Mangoes | 215 pkts. | Vegetable salad | 3 tins |
Mangoes | 115 tins | Vegetables (fresh) | 176 lbs. |
Meat (fresh) | 5,631 lbs. | Vegetables | 168 tins |
Meat | 433 tins | Vermicelli | 1 pkt. |
Meat cubes | 288 pkts. | Vinegar | 2 bottles |
Meat pies (fresh) | 3 | Yams (fresh) | 101 crates |
Meat pies | 13 tins | Yams | 10 tins |
FROZEN FOODS | |||
Beefburgers | 424 pkts. | Meat | 223 pkts. |
Cheeseburgers | 2 pkts. | Meat pies | 116 pkts. |
Chicken | 38 qtrs. | Mousse | 126 pkts. |
Chickens (whole) | 56 | Pastries | 34 |
Chicken pies | 42 pkts. | Pastry | 144 pkts. |
Chips | 128 pkts. | Peas | 1,172 pkts. |
Cream cakes | 7 pkts. | Sausages | 15 pkts. |
Fish | 799 pkts. | Sausage rolls | 52 pkts. |
Fishcakes | 531 pkts. | Sponges | 54 pkts. |
Fruit | 29 pkts. | Vegetables | 797 pkts. |
Hamburgers | 87 pkts. |
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